Overview
- Officials and student representatives say the first evacuation flight from Tehran to New Delhi is slated for Friday, with initial batches including students from Golestan University, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
- The MEA and the Indian Embassy in Tehran are physically registering nationals, collecting details and passports, and prioritizing students after activating emergency helplines and urging families to use the MEA portal for registrations.
- A near-total internet shutdown, intermittent phone service, roadblocks and reports of universities holding passports are complicating departures and limiting movement to transit hubs.
- Iran briefly closed and then reopened its airspace, leading to airline cancellations, rerouting and higher fares, while India weighs civilian and military airlift options as part of contingency planning.
- An estimated 10,000-plus Indians are in Iran, including large numbers of Kashmiri medical students, as political leaders and parents press for swift extraction and rights groups report protest deaths in the thousands; Jaishankar has consulted Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.