On Wednesday, Spain, Italy and Poland urged their citizens in Iran, to leave the country immediately due to ongoing anti-government demonstrations. TASR informs about it based on the reports of AFP and Reuters agencies. “Spaniards who are in Iran are advised to leave the country using available means,” the Spanish Ministry of Diplomacy said in an updated travel advisory.
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement emphatically called on its citizens to leave Iran due to the deteriorating security situation in the country. According to the department’s data, there are approximately 600 Italians in the country, mainly in the Tehran area. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called on its citizens to leave Iran immediately. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges immediate departure from Iran and does not recommend any travel to this country,” X wrote on the social network.
According to Politico magazine, the United Kingdom Embassy in Tehran has temporarily suspended its operations. “We have temporarily closed the British Embassy in Tehran, this will now work remotely. Foreign Office travel advice has been updated to reflect this consular change,” the magazine quoted a British government spokesman as saying. German authorities have also issued a warning to their airlines to avoid flying over Iranian airspace, FlightRadar24 reported on Wednesday.
The largest demonstrations in Iran since the turn of 2022 and 2023 broke out last December 28 after traders in Tehran, they organized a protest against rising prices and the fall of the Iranian currency, the rial. Since then, the protests have intensified and grown into large-scale anti-government demonstrations. On January 8, in an attempt to limit them, the government blocked the Internet and telephone calls abroad in the country. According to a Wednesday report by the Norwegian NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) during the demonstrations, security forces killed at least 3,428 people and arrested more than 10,000 others.
