Iran has issued an emergency notification effectively shutting down its national airspace to nearly all flight operations, according to data from FlightRadar24 cited by Reuters.

The Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) restricts the use of Iranian skies to a narrow subset of international flights that must receive explicit authorization from Iranian civil aviation and military authorities.

Flight tracking platforms showed a dramatic “emptying” of the airspace over the Islamic Republic and neighboring Iraq late Wednesday night.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      83·
      1 day ago

      https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-leftists-and-anarchists-who-cheer

      The more power structures are absorbed into the empire, the larger and more powerful the empire becomes. Desiring their absorption is desiring more power for the US empire.

      And you can lie to yourself and say that you don’t want Iran to be absorbed into the control of the US empire, you just want its people to live in a free and democratic country. But we both know that’s not going to happen. Once the strength of the Iranian government has been collapsed there will be a power vacuum that is filled by whatever faction is able to secure control, and the strongest faction will be whichever one is backed by the US and its allies. There is no organic faction within Iran that is strong enough to stand against the installation of a US puppet regime at this time, besides the one that presently exists.

      That’s the reality of the situation. It’s not ideal, but it is reality. You can choose to be real about reality, or you can choose to psychologically compartmentalize away from it and tell yourself a bunch of fairly tales about a global people’s revolution which just coincidentally happens to be starting in all the countries the US empire hates most. I personally find the latter undignified, self-debasing, and power-serving.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        sometimes, i wish i didn’t know so that could live blissfully in ignorance.

    • orc_princess@lemmy.ml
      32·
      22 hours ago

      I don’t mean this with any disrespect or ill intent, but have you considered that you wanting a regime change to begin with may have something to do with decades of media manufacturing your consent for it, with outrageous claims of what goes in it but overlooking the modest successes of the government even under constant aggression and massive sanctions?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        13·
        18 hours ago

        It comes from my first principle of opposing theocracy and legally enforced misogyny. Same reason I also hope for the fall of the house of Saud (ok they’re a religious absolute monarchy). But it really solidified when I got to know a refugee from Iran.