Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said Thursday it had proposed resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States after more than 25 years.
According to the AP, Raza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the aviation organization, said Iranians living in the United States had asked for the flights when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York to attend a U.N. meeting last year, and the Iranian leader directed the organization to consider this request.
"On Wednesday, we sent a letter to the head of the civil aviation in the United States declaring our readiness" to resume direct flights, Jafarzadeh conveyed.
Jafarzadeh said: "It was just an answer to a demand by passengers who found their luggage was being damaged at various connection points on the way to the United States."
