India, March 3 -- The US State Department has called on all American nationals in the Middle East to leave as soon as possible through commercial means days after tensions in the Middle East escalated, following the US-Israel joint attack on Iran. Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, Mora Namdar, issued a list of several locations, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iran, calling on US nationals to leave immediately. Follow LIVE updates on the US Iran war here

Taking to X, Namdar wrote the the State Department and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urges American nationals to "DEPART NOW from the countries below using available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks."

The full list of the countries from which Americans...