India, June 20 -- Iran has eased airspace restrictions for three charter flights to evacuate about 1,000 Indian nationals who were moved to safer places from Tehran and more flights could be operated in the coming days for others wishing to return to India, a senior Iranian diplomat said on Friday.

India launched Operation Sindhu on Wednesday to evacuate Indians from Iran and Israel in view of the escalation in hostilities between the two countries. Indian authorities initially decided to move Indian nationals via land border crossings to third countries - Armenia in the case of Iran, and Egypt and Jordan in the case of Israel - before flying them back home.

"Iran's airspace is closed but because of this issue, we are making arrangement...