India, June 21 -- The arrival hall of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport witnessed a scene of patriotic celebration on Friday as a special flight carrying 290 Indians evacuated from Iran landed under the government's Operation Sindhu.

Amid chants of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and "Hindustan Zindabad", distressed passengers from Iran stepped onto home soil, ANI reported.

About the conditions in Iran, Tazkiya Fatima, a resident of Noida, said, "There is a situation of war over there. We were not sure how we would make it out of there, but the Government of India made the whole process very smooth. I am very thankful to the Indian government," she said.

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Another evacuee, Eliya Batool, was overco...