Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport resumes international flights

International flights from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport are scheduled to resume on Saturday, days after Iran reopened its airspace.

The first flights to resume will be to Istanbul and Muscat, the ISNA news agency reported.

A general view of the International Imam Khomeini Airport 45 kilometers south of Tehran, April 30, 2005

Iran's airspace was slammed shut by the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran that began on Feb. 28 and is only slowly being reopened during the ceasefire.

Officials announced last week that Mashhad airport, which serves the country's second city in the far northeast, would reopen on Monday.

On Friday, tracking data showed at least two international flights departing the airport, to Turkey and Oman respectively.