Citizenship News
Tensions are rising in the region after the United States began to withdraw some personnel from an airbase in Qatar amid growing fears of a renewed US-Iran conflict.
Iran’s airspace has reopened to traffic after a temporary closure to most flights expired, with tracking data showing aircraft making their way towards Tehran.
Protests that rocked Iran in the last few weeks have mostly subsided.
Iran has released no official death toll, but authorities said more than 100 members of the security forces have been killed. Opposition activists said the toll is much higher and includes more than 1,000 protesters.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denied that Tehran plans to execute antigovernment protesters, after US President Donald Trump said he had received assurances that killings of demonstrators in Iran had stopped.
(With Al Jazeera News)
