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Vehicles drive past damaged buildings as displaced people return to their home on April 17 after a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)
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he Foreign Ministry announced that it is carrying out a third evacuation wave from Iran, aiming to repatriate 45 Indonesians this week as a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East continues to hold.
As of Thursday, 32 Indonesians had arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten, while the remaining 13, all shipping crew, were awaiting the next available flight from Baku, the ministry’s citizen protection director Heni Hamidah said.
“Upon arrival in the country, the evacuees will be handed over to local authorities and relevant agencies for their onward return to their respective home regions,” Heni told reporters.
The latest evacuation has been conducted in stages, with 14 people arriving on Tuesday, followed by nine on Wednesday and another nine on Thursday.
Countries worldwide have continued evacuating their citizens from Iran nearly two months after the first United States and Israeli strikes on Tehran on Feb. 28, as a fragile ceasefire, set to expire next Wednesday, holds. Negotiations, however, remained deadlocked.
Talks in Islamabad last weekend ended without a breakthrough, and threats of escalation have resurfaced. United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned on Thursday that Washington was “locked and loaded” to resume full-scale military action against Tehran if negotiations fail.
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