FAA allows US civilian flights to resume over Arabian Gulf

FAA allows US civilian flights to resume over Arabian Gulf

DUBAI: The US Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that American civilian flights can resume operations over much of the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman region, loosening restrictions announced five weeks ago amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.. The FAA announcement said "there is sufficiently reduced risk of Iranian military miscalculation or misidentification that could affect US civil aviation operations in the overwater airspace above the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.". At the height of recent US-Iran tensions, Iranian forces accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.. The downing of the Ukrainian jet was a grim echo of when US navy forces accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet over the Arabian Gulf in 1988.. BEIRUT: In a speech on the 15th anniversary of the assassination of his father, Rafic Hariri, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced that the settlement he had established with President Michel Aoun had come to an end. ". "Iran's money solves Hezbollah's crisis; not the crisis of a country.. We have also heard that Saudi Arabia, the US, China, and the world do not want Saad Hariri, but I assure you