Top updates: Iran eases airspace curbs to allow Indians to be evacuated amid conflict with Israel

Iran has eased airspace curbs to allow three chartered flights to evacuate around 1,000 Indians from the country, a senior diplomat from the West Asian country said on Friday, according to the Hindustan Times.

On Wednesday, India began an operation to evacuate its citizens from Iran and Israel amid escalating hostilities between the two countries.

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other’s territory on Friday as the conflict between the two countries entered its eighth day. In the morning hours, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran, Al Jazeera reported, quoting Israeli public broadcaster Kan.

In Israel, 17 persons were said to have been injured in Iranian attacks, of whom three are in a serious condition.

Here is more on this and other top updates:

• While Iran’s airspace is closed, it is making arrangements to open it to allow the evacuation of Indian citizens in the country, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, the deputy chief of mission at the Iranian embassy, was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times on Friday. The Indian citizens were first relocated from the capital Tehran to the city of Qom, and then to the city of Mashad in northeastern Iran. They will be evacuated to Delhi on three chartered flights, Hosseini said. The first flight...

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