{"id":323809,"date":"2026-02-28T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323809"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:51:23","slug":"us-advises-embassy-staff-in-israel-to-leave-now-if-they-want-as-risk-of-war-hangs-over-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323809","title":{"rendered":"US advises embassy staff in Israel to leave now if they want, as risk of war hangs over Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Mednick and Sam Metz \u2013 AP Feb 27, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately, as the threat of an American strike on Iran<\/a> looms.<\/p>\n

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee (pictured above) told embassy employees in an email that discussions with officials in Washington had led to a decision authorizing departures for those who wished to leave.<\/p>\n

The email was recounted to The Associated Press by someone involved with the U.S. mission who wasn\u2019t authorized to share details. Sent before 10:30 a.m., it urged staff considering departure to do so quickly, advising them to to focus initially on getting any flight out of Israel and to then make their way to Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose wishing to take AD should do so TODAY,\u201d Huckabee wrote, using an acronym for \u201cauthorized departure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there may be outbound flights over the coming days, there may not be,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Huckabee said that there was no need for panic, but for those desiring to leave, it was important to make plans soon.<\/p>\n

The email came a day after Iran and the United States<\/a> walked away from nuclear negotiations without a deal, in their third round of nuclear talks in Geneva. Technical discussions are scheduled to take place in Vienna next week.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. embassy staffers are usually evacuated prior to an impending conflict. Does this mean that the U.S. and\/or Israel are preparing to launch strikes on Iran?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":313742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323811,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323809\/revisions\/323811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}