[UPDATE-Day #18] Iran Airspace Reopens as US Moves Carrier Strike Group to Mideast

Day #18 – In Brief

• The United Nations Security Council will convene at 3 pm, Thursday, to hold a briefing on the situation in Iran requested by the United States, according to the UN.
• 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 its airspace 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.”

This is a developing story that HO1 will continue to monitor.
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[UPDATE] New Zealand says it is appalled by escalating violence in Iran