Tehran's largest airport resumes int'l flights: media

Iran's Imam Khomeini International Airport resumed operations on Saturday, with passengers scheduled to depart for Medina in Saudi Arabia, Muscat in Oman and Istanbul in Türkiye, Iran's ISNA News Agency reported.

Iran shut down its airspace after joint U.S. and Israeli strikes starting on Feb. 28, halting civilian aviation operations nationwide.

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The country reopened its eastern airspace to international flights on April 18, with the gradual resumption of passenger flights at other airports since then.

Iran's Civil Aviation Authority has said that flight services will return to normal once technical and operational preparations by military and civilian authorities are completed.

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 11 pips to 6.7852 against the U.S. dollar Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.