Iran has warned the civil airlines around the world to avoid flying in Iranian airspace on the night between Wednesday and Thursday, an official Egyptian source quoted by Al Qaherah News TV – affiliated with the Egyptian state – relaunched from the agency’s website ReutersAccording to the source, Iranian airspace must be avoided due to unspecified “military exercises”. As a result, Egypt ordered all its airlines to avoid Iranian airspace in the early hours of Thursday morning. The warning Note reports that the instruction is in effect from 01:00 to 04:00 GMT (from 3 to 6 Italian time).
Tehran on Wednesday called on Islamic countries to “support Iran’s right to defend itself from any act of aggression,” because “Iran’s actions are aimed at protecting its sovereignty and national security, as well as ensuring the stability and security of the entire region”. This was stated by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani in his speech at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation convened by Tehran in Jeddah after the assassination of Haniyeh. Bagheri “appreciated the OIC’s swift condemnation of the assassination of the Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran”, denouncing instead that “the United States and some European countries not only failed to condemn it, but also continued to support the Zionist regime, revealing their lack of interest in regional stability and their intention to perpetuate insecurity”.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers one of its fundamental principles is to avoid war and seek to establish peace and security in the world but, within the framework of international treaties and laws, will never remain silent in the face of violations of its interests and security,” the Iranian president said, however. Massoud Pezeshkian, as reported by ISNA, during a phone call with Emmanuel Macron, where the French president expressed concern about an escalation of the conflict. “If there is an escalation” in the Middle East the United States is “ready to defend Israel and ourselves in the appropriate way,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing to a select group of reporters. – “We are closer than ever to an agreement on ceasefire” in Gaza, Kirby said again. Here is the chronicle of the day.
