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Iranian flights cancelled as new US ‘D-Day’ sanctions take effect, Saudis say they shoot down Houthi missiles

DUBAI/RIYADH, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Iranian flights to Gulf neighbours including travel hub Dubai appeared to have been cancelled on Thursday after a US deadline passed for global firms to halt work with Iran’s airlines, a major step in a campaign President Donald Trump calls “economic D-Day”.

In Saudi Arabia, where an escalating conflict with Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi fighters this month has become the main front in the wider Middle East war, authorities said they had intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis.

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