Sunday, August 24, 2025

PROTESTS IN IRAN, AIRSPACE STILL CLOSED

Massive protests are taking place in Iran as you are reading this. Families, middle aged men and women,  older people are out on the streets protesting that there is no electricity, no regular water supplies, not getting paid on time or not getting paid at all. Iranians are undergoing very tough times.

Iranian air space is still closed - more than two months after the short war between Iran and Israel in June 2025. You can see flightradar24.com from this morning which shows most international flights flying around Iranian airspace. There are some flights overflying Iran. There are no flights going into Teheran International airport.

 

 

To keep up appearances the ayatollahs have organised an exhibition of  full sized montages of dead people  in the airport terminal building. You can see in the picture below cardboard cutouts of Hassan Nasrallah the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah who was killed in Beirut. Behind him are life sized cutouts of other Iranian military men and nuclear scientists who have been killed so far.




This morbid exhibition will also attract some people to visit the airport terminal, thus giving it a sense of being busy. But there are no international flights and domestic flights are limited as well.

The Iranian airspace is still controlled by the Israelis.