{"id":200350,"date":"2025-06-20T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200350\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:53:14","slug":"uk-pulls-embassy-staff-out-of-iran-as-tensions-flare-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200350\/","title":{"rendered":"UK pulls embassy staff out of Iran as tensions flare \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government stressed that it did not reflect a perceived change to the current situation with Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The move came as the U.K. \u2014 which has been urging the Trump administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/starmer-warns-trump-deescalate-iran-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">focus on negotiations over Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/a> rather than joining Israel\u2019s military offensive \u2014 announced plans for charter flights to evacuate British nationals from the Israeli capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK will provide charter flights for British nationals from Tel Aviv when airspace reopens,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidLammy\/status\/1936018811649417405\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Secretary David Lammy in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegister your presence to receive further guidance. Flights will be available based on the level of demand. The safety of British nationals remains our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lammy held talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday about the situation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/london-playbook\/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitehall officials told POLITICO<\/a> the foreign secretary was confident Trump would prefer a deal over military action.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Lammy, along with French and German foreign ministers, held talks with their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Geneva. Lammy insisted \u201ca window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution\u201d after Trump said he would decide whether to launch military action against Iran in the next fortnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government stressed that it did not reflect a perceived change to the current situation with Israel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[18992,748,1193,6178,6217,32,393,4884,774,837,2597,809,1144,5549,712,811,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-200350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-airspace","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-david-lammy","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-negotiations","22":"tag-northern-ireland","23":"tag-safety","24":"tag-scotland","25":"tag-security","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114716737747916279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200350","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=200350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}