CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry stated Wednesday it has ordered Egyptian airways to steer clear of Iranian airspace for 3 hours the next day to come after a realize from Tehran to take action on account of army workouts.The caution comes amid hovering tensions within the area following ultimate week’s assassination of Hamas’ chief in Tehran. The Egyptian ministry stated the caution got here in a realize despatched by way of Iran to all business airways.The ministry stated the ban from Iranian airspace used to be to ultimate for 3 hours, 4:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Thursday. Iran’s caution additionally lined 3 hours previous on Wednesday, the ministry added.Talking to Iran’s ISNA information company, the top of Iran’s world airport in Tehran, Saeed Chalandari, denied studies of a caution towards coming into the airspace of western Iran, but it surely used to be no longer transparent if that carried out to all the nation.Israel has been bracing for an assault by way of Iran and its allied militias over the assassinations in Tehran of Hamas’ most sensible chief Ismail Haniyeh and a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut.Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the July 31 explosion in Tehran that killed Haniyeh. Israel has neither showed nor denied accountability.The escalation caused many world carriers to droop flights to Lebanon, Israel and Iran.
