Iran warns airlines of potential GPS disruptions over the country

Illustrative: An airplane lands at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, February 4, 2021. (Saeed Kaari/IKAC via AP)
Illustrative: An airplane lands at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, February 4, 2021. (Saeed Kaari/IKAC via AP)

Iran has issued a notice to airlines, known as a NOTAM, warning of GPS disruptions over the country.

The significance of the disruptions is not immediately clear, nor who may be behind them, though GPS disruptions are sometimes used to confuse the targeting of precision-guided missiles.

The notice comes as the Middle East is braced for a forceful Iranian attack on Israel following the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, widely attributed to Jerusalem.

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