{"id":80390,"date":"2026-09-26T03:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80390"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:08:55","slug":"iraqi-airports-halt-iranian-flights-starting-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80390","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi airports halt Iranian flights starting Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Iraq\u2019s Erbil and Sulaimaniya airports suspended Iranian flights starting \u200bon Friday, two sources told Reuters, after \u200cother Iraqi airports took the same step earlier in the week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move means that according to sources and \u200bstate media, flights to and from \u200bIran are suspended from all four Iraqi airports \u2060at which they were operating \u2014 Baghdad, Najaf, \u200bErbil and Sulaimaniya.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s state news agency reported the \u200bsuspension at Najaf International Airport earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Two separate sources told Reuters earlier in the week that Iraq \u200bordered its civil aviation authority to halt Iranian flights \u200bto Baghdad airport from Wednesday. The sources said at the \u200ctime \u2060that the government was discussing diverting Iranian flights from Baghdad to Najaf.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had announced it would impose sanctions on any global companies doing \u200bbusiness with \u200bIranian airlines \u2060after September 23, with the aim of grounding Iran\u2019s entire civilian fleet \u200bworldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates, the Middle \u200bEast\u2019s \u2060biggest travel hub, also said on Thursday it was suspending all flights by Iranian airlines to \u2060and from \u200bthe country until further \u200bnotice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/iraqi-airports-halt-iranian-flights-starting-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s Erbil and Sulaimaniya airports suspended Iranian flights starting \u200bon Friday, two sources told Reuters, after \u200cother Iraqi airports took the same step earlier in the week. The move means that according to sources and \u200bstate media, flights to and from \u200bIran are suspended from all four Iraqi airports \u2060at which they were operating \u2014 Baghdad, Najaf, \u200bErbil and Sulaimaniya&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-2026-09-25T202014.179-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6320,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6320,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80392,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80390\/revisions\/80392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}