Iran temporarily closes its airspace to Egyptian civilian aircraft
Kyiv • UNN
Iran asked Egyptian airlines to avoid its airspace for 3 hours on Thursday due to military exercises. Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry confirmed the ban, but an Iranian official denied the report.
Tehran appealed to Cairo to demand that Egyptian airlines avoid Iranian airspace for three hours on Thursday. Iran explained this by conducting military exercises, AP reports, UNN reports.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation said that the ban on visiting Iranian airspace will be in effect from 4:30 to 7:30 am, but it is not yet known at what time.
The ministry added that Iran's warning was also extended three hours earlier on Wednesday.
In turn, the head of Iran's international airport in Tehran, Saeed Chalandari, in an interview with the media denied reports that a warning had been issued not to enter the airspace of western Iran, but it is unclear whether this applies to the entire country.
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