Istanbul flights to Tehran cancelled Friday night: Airport

Flights from Istanbul airport to Tehran were cancelled on Friday night amid a mounting US military buildup around Iran.

Istanbul airport said flights by Turkish Airlines and two Iranian companies to the Iranian capital had been cancelled. 

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Four flights to Tehran scheduled for Saturday were also cancelled, though six others remained on the schedule. A Turkish Airlines flight to the northern Iranian city of Tabriz, due to leave early Saturday, was called off.

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Turkish authorities made no comment on events in Iran on Friday, declining to join the litany of nations advising their citizens against travel to Iran. 

Turkey has a 550km (340 mile) frontier with Iran that has three crossing points.