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Iran Opens Airspace for India to Pull Out Nationals
Financial Express Bengaluru
|June 21, 2025
AS THE ISRAEL-IRAN war rages amid indications that the US could join the strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, Delhi has managed to persuade Tehran to open Iranian airspace for the evacuation of around 1,000 Indians via the northeastern town of Mashhad.
Sources said Delhi, after days of negotiations, has moved its nationals to Mashhad and secured overflight permissions from Iran and Turkmenistan to fly Indians out of harm's way.
This story is from the June 21, 2025 edition of Financial Express Bengaluru.
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