Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Amid soaring tensions in the Middle East,Air India on April 13 avoided the Iranian airspace, according to a TOI report. Air India AI 161, which took off from Delhi at 4.30 am did not overfly Iran and took an alternate route to London.
This comes a day after the Ministry of External Affairs advised Indian nationals to not travel till further notice to Iran and Israel – the two countries teetering on the brink of a major military escalation.
Israel braced for an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of retaliation for an attack on Iran’s embassy compound last week in Damascus that killed a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ overseas Quds Force and six other officers.
Israel did not claim responsibility for the airstrike on April 1. But Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Israel “must be punished and shall be” for an operation he said was equivalent to an attack on Iranian soil.
