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Ukraine Plane Crash & Flight Cancellations; 2020 Updates.

On 8th January, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 took off from Tehran to Kiev. Minutes later, it crashed. All 174 passengers passed away. The world was mourning.

Read more: Heartbroken; Ukraine Airline Crash in Iran

Three days later, Iran’s armed forces said two missiles were, unintentionally, shot at the plane. Of course, many airlines, such as Lufthansa Group, cancel their flights to Iran.

The rest? A majority of the other airlines flying to Iran continue to operate flights as usual. These include giants like Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, Qatar Airways, Emirates, etc.

Today, the sky is clear. Iran Air Defense Force is analyzing the cause of the accident. They have promised no such tragedies will ever happen in Iran again.

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Conflicts between the US and Iran: What’s Happening in Iran and Iraq

In the last week, the news about Middle-East were fast and, unfortunately, furious. Tensions between the US and Iran escalated as the US killed the top Iranian general in an airstrike in Baghdad, capital of Iraq. We knew some of you were worriedly following the news, so we decided to post this short article and share what the situation looks like here and answer some of the questions you might have.

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Iran after the Public Protests; Safety Concerns for the Travelers

2019 marked itself with a chain of protests in France, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and finally Iran. It was November 16 that public media broke the news of ongoing protests and turmoil in Iran triggered following a spike in the gas price. The protest went from gentle ways of signaling dissatisfaction like chanting against the government’s economic policies or blocking the highways to uncontrolled violence setting some banks and gas stations ablaze. Immediately, the government limited Internet access to prevent the protests getting viral.

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Iran Flights and the US Sanctions: Is this the Time to get Worried?

If you have happened to travel to Iran or you have recently been considering traveling to Iran in the near future, you might probably have heard about all the news about some European airlines halting their flights to Iran. Some of you might have even worried about the availability of flights to Iran and some of you might have considered doing some Googling to see if you might need to make new decisions about your travel to Iran. In this article, we’ve brought you everything you need to know about the current status of international flights to Iran.

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