MUMBAI:
Air India flights today avoided venturing into Iranian airspace as tensions soar in the Middle East after Iran warned of a retaliatory attack on Israel.
Sources say Air India flights to Europe took longer routes to avoid Iranian airspace.
Countries including India, France and Russia have warned their citizens against travel to the region, already on edge over the war in Gaza, now in its seventh month.
Since Iran viewed the embassy strike as equivalent to an attack on its own territory, sources say, a direct attack on Israeli soil by Iran itself rather than a proxy such as Hezbollah in Lebanon was a real possibility.
