Tehran, YJC. The first Iranian flight landed in the Yemeni capital on Sunday only a day after the two countries signed an aviation agreement.
An airplane belonging to the Iranian airliner Mahan Air
carrying a cargo of humanitarian aid – mostly medicine - for Yemen landed in
the country’s capital today. The cargo was contributed by the Red
Crescent of Iran.
"The flights between Tehran and Sanaa are meant to transport
passengers,” an unnamed official has told ISNA.
"Considering that Iran wanted to take a message of peace to
Yemen, it was decided to dedicate the first flight to the country for
transporting a relief cargo of medical supplies.”
The flight was the first to be conducted between the two
countries in many years.
Under the agreement that was signed by the Civil Aviation
and Meteorology Authority (CAMA) of Yemen and Iran's Civil Aviation
Organization (CAO)on 28 February, Mahan Air and Yemen’s Yemenia aviation
company would operate 14 flights between Tehran Sanaa each a week.