Overview

• India’s third chartered Mahan Air flight carrying 310 nationals landed in Delhi on Saturday afternoon, marking the latest stage of the evacuation effort.
• The Ministry of External Affairs reported that 827 of an estimated 10,000 Indians in Iran have now been repatriated under Operation Sindhu.
• Indian and Iranian authorities coordinated the relocation of nationals from Tehran to safer cities before boarding evacuation flights.
• Iran granted exclusive access to its airspace for these chartered operations and indicated that additional flights can be arranged if required.
• Two more evacuation flights, including one from Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat, are scheduled to arrive in Delhi within the next 24 hours.