Iran Denies Planning Military Response Over Aviation Restrictions

The significance lies less in the denial than in the framing: Tehran is pairing a diplomatic track with an explicit threat of non-military retaliation aimed at specific airports, which keeps aviation infrastructure itself in the crosshairs. That ambiguity leaves operators and carriers exposed to a tool that can disrupt routes without any conventional escalation. Whether the stated preference for negotiations holds, and whether the referenced countermeasures stay unused, is the open question.