Emirates partially resumes operations and tells booked passengers to go to airport

Iran’s nationwide internet blackout entered its second week on Saturday, with the public still cut off from vital updates and alerts 168 hours after the shutdown was imposed, internet monitoring group NetBlocks said.

The “regime-imposed national internet blackout” remained in place after a full week, leaving the public isolated while officials and state media retained access, NetBlocks said.

All Emirates flights to and from Dubai were suspended until further notice, the airline said on Saturday.

The UAE flag carrier said it had been operating limited services from Dubai and Abu Dhabi through safe air corridors.

The Dubai Media Office also said that operations at Dubai International Airport had been suspended.

Those dreaming of Iran’s unconditional surrender “will take that dream to their graves,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday amid US-Israel airstrikes.

He added that Iran will not carry out attacks or missile strikes against neighboring countries unless an attack against Iran originates from those countries.

Pezeshkian said Iran’s interim leadership council had approved the policy to avoid targeting neighboring states.

He also apologized to neighboring countries, saying Tehran has no enmity with regional countries.

US Representative Pat Fallon said on Saturday that returning to the Iran nuclear deal would be “insane and wrong,” as Iranian authorities are responsible for killing hundreds of Americans.

“The Iranian regime has killed hundreds of Americans and has chosen chaos and destruction at every opportunity,” he wrote in a post on X.

Fallon said Iran had repeatedly chosen violence and should not be rewarded with a return to the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.

More than 80 Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck Iranian military infrastructure in Tehran and central Iran, the Israeli military said Saturday.

Targets included the IRGC Imam Hossein military university used for officer training and assembly, ballistic missile storage facilities, underground missile command infrastructure, and launch sites in western and central Iran aimed at Israel.