The European Union’s air safety regulator on Thursday recommended the bloc’s airlines avoid flying over Iranian airspace until March 31. Thus extend one. “The presence and possible use of a wide range of weapons and air defense systems, together with unpredictable state responses… create a high risk for civil flights operating at all altitudes and flight levels,” the European Union Aviation Safety Agency stated in a bulletin.
On January 14, Iran closed its airspace for a few hours. That morning, the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran issued the restriction without any prior notice on all commercial flights, which were prohibited from flying over the country.
After weeks of tension with the United States and Iran, Iran has promised a harsh response to any attack and has warned neighboring Gulf Arab countries that host American bases that they could be in the line of fire if they were involved in an attack.
Countries in the region fear that a breakup of the negotiations could trigger a conflict that would spread to the rest of the region. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared last Wednesday that he will continue with the negotiations. These statements were made by him, who visited him urgently to request that the United States assume Israeli positions and force Tehran to limit the range of its missiles. “Nothing definitive has been reached, except that I have insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see if an agreement can be closed or not,” the US president wrote in a message on his social network, Truth.
