Tehran – Iran’s president is asking aviation authorities to study the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States for the first time in more than three decades.
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Hassan Rouhani’s request reflects Iranian efforts to possibly build on the groundbreaking exchanges with Washington that included a telephone chat last week between the new Iranian president and President Barack Obama.
Iran’s immediate goal is to resume talks over its nuclear program to seek easing of Western sanctions. But Tehran also appears willing to explore expanded contacts.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Akbar Torkan, a senior government official, as saying on Monday that Rouhani wants to study the options of direct flights.
More than 1 million Iranian-Americans live in California and elsewhere.
Direct flights halted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
his true thoughts…. now we can send terrorists directly to thier destinations, it will be cut costs and make killing so much easier
Iran doesn’t have missiles capable of hitting the US. The only way they can currently deliver a nuclear bomb is in the cargo hold of a commercial flight. They could then explode that bomb while the plane was flying over a US city with the same results as if it had been exploded inside the warhead of a missile. The Iranians are craftier than we think.
Will they serve Kosher on the flight ?