{"id":341465,"date":"2020-03-11T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341465"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:06:59","slug":"iaf-aircraft-brings-back-58-indians-from-coronavirus-hit-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-aircraft-brings-back-58-indians-from-coronavirus-hit-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF aircraft brings back 58 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) brought back 58 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran on Tuesday, official said.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, a C-17 Globemaster, was sent to Tehran on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,000 Indians are living in Iran, a country that has witnessed increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IAF aircraft has landed. Mission completed. On to the next,\u201d External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier tweet, he said, \u201cFirst batch of 58 Indian pilgrims being brought back from Iran. IAF C-17 taken off from Tehran and expected to land soon in Hindon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the efforts of our Embassy @India_in_Iran and Indian medical team there, operating under challenging conditions. Thank you @IAF_MCC. Appreciate cooperation of Iranian authorities. We are working on the return of other Indians stranded there (sic),\u201d Jaishankar added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) brought back 58 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran on Tuesday, official said. The aircraft, a C-17 Globemaster, was sent to Tehran on Monday evening. About 2,000 Indians are living in Iran, a country that has witnessed increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in the last few days. \u201cThe IAF aircraft has landed. Mission completed. On to the next,\u201d External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted. In an earlier tweet, he said, \u201cFirst batch of 58 Indian pilgrims being brought back from Iran. IAF C-17 taken off from Tehran and expected to land soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}