{"id":292377,"date":"2024-08-04T06:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292377"},"modified":"2024-08-05T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T08:13:17","slug":"france-tells-its-citizens-to-leave-iran-as-soon-as-possible-as-middle-east-tensions-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292377","title":{"rendered":"France tells its citizens to leave Iran as soon as possible as Middle East tensions soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hamas rockets and Iron Dome air defence missiles over Tel-Aviv<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nicholas Cecil \u2013 Evening Standard Aug 2, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>France warned its citizens in Iran to leave the country as soon as possible as tensions spiral in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>It also formally advised its citizen against travelling to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Paris issued the advice due to a risk of military escalation in the region, the foreign ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office in Britain already advises against all travel to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritish and British-Iranian dual nationals are at significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Having a British passport or connections to the UK can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to detain you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder: if you are a British national in Lebanon, you should register your presence here to receive the latest information from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCDOGovUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FCDOgovUK<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t80LVEptXq\">https:\/\/t.co\/t80LVEptXq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We advise against all travel to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Lammy (@DavidLammy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidLammy\/status\/1819336589421457566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>British citizens are already being advised to leave Lebanon, while commercial flights are still running, and to register with the Foreign Office in case an evacuation is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> said the assassination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/hamas\">Hamas<\/a> leader Ismail Haniyeh was not helpful to reaching a ceasefire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/israel\">Israel<\/a>\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The US president made the comment as another airline suspended flights to Tel Aviv as tensions spiralled in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/hamas-ismail-haniyeh-killed-iran-revolutionary-leader-b1173894.html\">Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike on Wednesday when he was visiting Tehran<\/a> to attend the swearing in ceremony for Iran\u2019s new president Masoud Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t help,\u201d Mr Biden told reporters late on Thursday, when asked if Haniyeh\u2019s assassination ruined the chances for a Gaza ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The US president also said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/benjamin-netanyahu\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Haniyeh\u2019s death came 24 hours after Israel said it had killed senior Hezbollah commander senior Fuad Shukr in Lebanon that it said was behind a deadly strike on a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights which killed a dozen children and teenagers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As tensions have soared in the region, airlines<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/lufthansa-airline-cancels-flights-israel-tel-aviv-b1174251.html\"> including Lufthansa have been suspending flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s ITA Airways was the latest to take such action, announcing that it was suspending flights to and from Tel Aviv \u201cdue to the geopolitical developments in the Middle East and to ensure the safety of its passengers and crews\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Flights have been suspended until August 6, it said.<\/p>\n<p>America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/david-lammy-lebanon-john-healey-foreign-secretary-tehran-b1174323.html\">Britain and other allies are calling for de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said avenging the Hamas political leader\u2019s assassination was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/tehran\">Tehran<\/a>\u2019s duty\u201d because it occurred in the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n<p>He led prayers in Iran on Thursday for Haniyeh whose body was taken on a funeral march through the capital before being flown back to Qatar for burial.<\/p>\n<p>Haniyeh will be interred on Friday in a cemetery after funeral prayers in the city of Lusail, north of Qatar&#8217;s capital Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Normally based in Qatar, Haniyeh was seen as more moderate than some of the Hamas leaders in Gaza and had participated in internationally-brokered indirect talks on reaching a ceasefire in the besieged strip.<\/p>\n<p>The International Criminal Court prosecutor\u2019s office, though, requested an arrest warrant for him over alleged war crimes at the same time it issued a similar request against Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s government has issued no claim of responsibility for Haniyeh\u2019s death but has said Israel had delivered crushing blows to Iran\u2019s proxies of late, including Hamas and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, and would respond forcefully to any attack.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s tensions with Iran and Hezbollah have fanned fears of a widened conflict in a region already on edge amid Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza which has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on October 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza health ministry says that since then Israel\u2019s military assault on the Hamas-governed enclave has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians while also displacing nearly the entire population of 2.3 million, causing a hunger crisis and leading to genocide accusations that Israel denies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/iran-middle-east-france-airlines-joe-biden-gaza-israel-hamas-leader-killed-ceasefire-b1174352.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ominous signs that a wider regional war may be looming, France has advised its citizens to leave Iran as soon as possible. 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