{"id":203329,"date":"2025-06-21T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203329\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:58:12","slug":"european-countries-evacuate-citizens-from-israel-iran-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203329\/","title":{"rendered":"European countries evacuate citizens from Israel, Iran \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schweizerischesseeschifffahrtsamt.eda.admin.ch\/en\/newnsb\/3BW2GBzG8ighXgDq0dFYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switzerland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzv.sk\/pressreleasedetail?p_p_id=sk_mzv_portal_pressrelease_detail_portlet_PressReleaseDetailPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;groupId=10182&amp;articleId=54961636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slovakia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.government.bg\/bg\/prestsentar\/novini\/premierat-zhelyazkov-uspeshno-priklyuchi-evakuatsiyata-na-balgarite-pozhelali-da-napusnat-teheran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bulgaria<\/a> made a similar announcements, while the U.K. announced it is pulling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-pulls-embassy-staff-iran-tensions-israel-conflict-nuclear-weapons-us-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embassy staff<\/a> out of Iran and also offering citizens <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/uk-preparing-charter-flights-out-of-israel-for-british-nationals-13386249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flights out<\/a> of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal from the region is happening against a backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-rejects-diplomacy-iran-europeans-tehran-geneva-gideon-saar-middle-east-donald-trump-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intense diplomacy<\/a>, as European officials try to defuse the deadly conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Israel launched a series of air strikes on Iran, in an attack aimed at dismantling Tehran\u2019s nuclear weapons program. That\u2019s sparked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/israel-trump-iran-00416193\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/israel-trump-iran-00416193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustained ballistic exchange<\/a> that has now entered its second week, with Iran responding to the Israeli incursions with volleys of missiles aimed at Tel Aviv and other sites.<\/p>\n<p>In what could potentially mark a further escalation of the conflict, the U.S. hasn\u2019t yet decided whether it will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/israel-trump-iran-00416193\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/israel-trump-iran-00416193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike targets in Iran<\/a> and enter the conflict on the side of its long-standing Middle East ally, Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Pogatchnik and Chris Lunday contributed reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland, Slovakia and Bulgaria made a similar announcements, while the U.K. announced it is pulling embassy staff out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[14533,13489,6178,5293,32,2000,299,5187,1824,774,837,839,2598,8041,1814,2558,2600,15,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-203329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-bulgaria","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-missiles","21":"tag-nuclear-weapons","22":"tag-palestine","23":"tag-slovakia","24":"tag-switzerland","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723127544135217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203329","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=203329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}