Iran closes airspace as US moves carrier strike group to Mideast

Iran closes airspace as US moves carrier strike group to Mideast

IranInternational 

Summary

• US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had been told the killings in Iran had stopped, a remark widely seen as conciliatory. However, regional military deployments, evacuation reports, and comments by Western officials point to an “imminent” attack.

  
  

• Iran has issued a new NOTAM closing the Tehran Flight Information Region to all flights, allowing only international civil arrivals and departures with prior authorization from the country’s civil aviation authority.

  
  

• Iranian authorities have significantly expanded the presence of security forces across multiple cities, tightening control to prevent further protests in what some residents inside Iran described as a 'de facto curfew.'

  
  

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Mohammad Pakpour said the country’s armed forces were at a high level of readiness and warned of a decisive response to any “miscalculation by the enemy.”

• The United States is withdrawing some personnel from major military bases in the Middle East including the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Wednesday evening, officials told Reuters.

  
  

• Iran warned Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey that it would strike US military bases on their soil if Washington attacked Iran, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.

  
  

• At least 12,000 people were killed over two nights on January 8 and 9 during protests, Iran International’s editorial board concluded, based on a review of sources and medical data.