The first flight carrying 290 Indian students from Iran landed in Delhi on Friday night at around 11.40 pm under India's evacuation program, Operation Sindhu. This rescue operation is being conducted through Mahan Air's chartered flights from Mashhad to bring approximately 1,000 Indians back home.

While the first flight from Mashhad has already arrived, the second flight from Ashgabat is scheduled to land on Saturday morning at around 10 am. The third flight will land on Saturday evening.

"We consider Indians as our own people. Iran's airspace is closed but because of this issue, we are making arrangements to open it for the safe passage of Indian nationals," Mohammad Javad Hosseini, the deputy chief of mission at the Iranian embassy said at a media briefing.

"The first flight will land tonight at the New Delhi airport and there will be two more flights on Saturday," he said.

This comes two days after India launched 'Operation Sindhu' to evacuate its nationals from Iran amid escalating hostilities between Iran and Israel.

Source: India Today