U.S. Orders Citizens to Flee Middle East Immediately
“The department urges Americans to DEPART NOW from the countries below using available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks,” wrote Mora Namdar, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, in a post on X.
The advisory listed Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen as locations facing “serious safety risks.”
The warning came as the United States and Israel launched massive airstrikes against Iran on Saturday. Tehran confirmed Sunday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes the previous day.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. objectives in the campaign against Iran “can be achieved without ground forces.” He added: “Right now, we're not postured for ground forces, but obviously the president has those options.”
Rubio further emphasized: “Our focus is on the destruction of their ballistic missile launchers, their ballistic missile stockpiles and their ballistic missile manufacturing capability, as well as their one-way attack drones and their Navy.”
On the same day, President Donald Trump stated the military campaign against Iran has the “capability to go far longer” than the four to five weeks he had projected during media interviews a day earlier.
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