Russia said Sunday it had evacuated several of its citizens from Iran and halted activity at its Tehran consulate after Israeli attacks on the country sparked retaliatory missile fire towards Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the current situation, the consular service of the embassy is temporarily suspending its activities. The resumption of consular services will be announced later,\u201d the Russian embassy in Tehran said on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said musicians from the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra were evacuated from Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe musicians crossed the Azerbaijani border. Yesterday (Saturday), Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film crew left Iran via the same route,\u201d she said on Telegram, referring to the Russian director and actor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s civil aviation authority ordered airlines to suspend flights to Iran and Israel and avoid their airspace \u2014 along with the airspace of Jordan and Iraq \u2014 until at least June 26, following official travel warnings issued Friday.<\/p>\n
Israel launched unprecedented strikes on Iran’s military and nuclear facilities early Friday, saying it aimed to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
Iran has responded with multiple missile salvos targeting Israel.<\/p>\n
President Vladimir Putin, who maintains ties with both Iran and Israel, condemned Israel’s strikes and warned of a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia said Sunday it had evacuated several of its citizens from Iran and halted activity at its Tehran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[37209,774,837,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-187157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-foreign-ministry","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689157632691424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}