Serbia and Sweden have warned their citizens to leave Iran amid escalating tensions following United States President, Donald Trump’s threat of military action over the country’s nuclear programme.
Serbia had already urged its nationals in mid-January to depart Iran and avoid travel there, after the nation’s clerical authorities violently suppressed a mass protest movement.
“Due to the deteriorating security situation, citizens of the Republic of Serbia are not recommended to travel to Iran in the coming period,” the Serbian foreign ministry stated on its website overnight Friday to Saturday. “All those who are in Iran are recommended to leave the country as soon as possible.”
In a similar warning, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard took to X to make a “strong appeal addressed to Swedish citizens who are in Iran to leave.”
Meanwhile, Iran expressed hope for a swift agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, which has long been a point of contention.
But Trump, after ordering a major naval build-up in the Middle East to increase pressure on Tehran, said on Friday that he was “considering” a limited military strike if negotiations fail.
