After US Advisory, France Urges Nationals To Avoid Travel To Israel, Iran
ABP NewsAfter the United States, France on Friday warned its citizens to "imperatively refrain from travel in the coming days to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories", the foreign minister's entourage told AFP. Iran has threatened reprisals against Israel over a strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1 that killed seven Revolutionary Guards including two generals, sparking fears of an escalation of violence in the Middle East. Speaking at a crisis meeting, France's Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne asked that family members of French diplomats in Iran be evacuated, and no French civil servants be sent on missions to the listed countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was ready to meet any security challenge, warning that Israel would harm any country that caused it harm.