International flights at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, have partially resumed.
According to local media including Mehr News on the 25th, passenger flights that departed Imam Khomeini International Airport that day headed to Muscat, Oman, and Istanbul, Türkiye, respectively. A special flight bound for Medina, Saudi Arabia, also reportedly took off from Imam Khomeini Airport that day.
It has been 56 days since international passenger flights at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, operated on Feb. 28, after the U.S.-Israel war began. Iranian authorities restricted operations at major airports and aircraft flights in late February after the outbreak of war due to a preemptive attack by the United States and Israel.
Then on the 20th, the Iran Civil Aviation Organization resumed domestic flights at Tehran's two airports, Imam Khomeini Airport and Mehrabad Airport, which had been halted by the war.
Some say Iran's move to normalize operations, including international flights following domestic routes, stems from rising expectations for end-of-war talks with the United States. The United States is reportedly pushing to hold a second round of peace talks with Iran as early as this weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ramin Kashef Azar, president of the Imam Khomeini Airport Company, said, "Following the resumption of cargo flights during the truce period that began on the 8th, passenger flights have also been approved," adding, "All of the airport's infrastructure and navigation systems are fully operational."