Iran has grounded all flights from its airports hours after Israel vowed revenge for a barrage of missiles the Islamic regime fired at it on Tuesday.
The ban will last from 9pm local time on Sunday (6.30pm GMT) and 6am on Monday (3.30am GMT) Iranian state media said.
The flights were canceled due to operational restrictions, state media cited the Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization as saying, without providing further details.
Iran implemented restrictions on flights on Tuesday when it launched missiles at Israel, in an attack to which Israel vowed to respond.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning warned Iran the attack would not go unpunished.
‘No country in the world would accept such an attack on its cities and citizens, and nor will Israel,’ he said.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in a southern Beirut suburb, on October 3