Iran closes Tehran’s airspace due to “military drills”

Mehr News Agency, a “semi-official” news agency of the Iranian government, stated that the country has suspended all air traffic over the capital Tehran starting from 12:00 AM Thursday to conduct “military drills” – according to a senior Iranian defense official cited by the agency.

The United States suspects that Iran may soon carry out missile strikes targeting military and government sites in the occupied territory, as reported by the American Bloomberg network.

Sources familiar with intelligence information stated to Bloomberg that Washington and its allies anticipate potential missile or drone attacks by Iran or its proxies on significant military and governmental installations in the occupied area.

One source expected that such attacks are perceived as inevitable based on intelligence assessments from both the US and the occupied territory, according to Bloomberg.

Earlier this week, An adviser to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei warned that the Israeli Occupation embassies are “no longer safe” after a strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria which killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members – according to Agence France-Presse.

“The embassies of the Zionist regime are no longer safe,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, senior adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

Iran has vowed to avenge last week’s airstrike on Damascus that leveled the Iranian embassy’s consular annex, killing seven IRGC members, including senior general Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander in the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon.

“The resistance front is ready; how it (the response) will be, we have to wait,” Safavi said, adding that “confronting this brutal regime is a legal and legitimate right”.

Zahedi was the most senior Iranian soldier killed since the United States missile strike at Baghdad airport in 2020 which killed Qasem Soleimani – commander of the Quds force.