France, Germany urge its citizens to depart Iran, cancel flights amid increased risk of military escalation

France and Germany person urged their citizens to depart Iran amid an accrued consequence of subject escalation successful nan Middle East. 

"Due to nan caller level reached overnight by Iran and nan consequence of subject escalation, nan French embassy recommends to French residents successful Iran who person nan possibility, depending connected nan resumption of world aerial traffic, to time off temporarily nan country," French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said successful a connection issued Sunday. "You are asked to workout nan top be aware erstwhile traveling, to debar immoderate gatherings successful nan state and to support yourself informed of nan situation." 

The connection added that French nationals "are recommended to perfectly refrain from walking to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and nan Palestinian Territories." 

In a televised question and reply pinch France 2, Sejourne said Sunday he asked nan overseas ministry to summon nan ambassador of Iran connected Monday, adding that it was "the Iranians who attacked Israel." 

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Iranian pro-government supporters stitchery astatine Palestine Square successful Tehran, connected April 14, 2024, successful a ceremony of nan early greeting Iran's IRGC onslaught connected Israel. (HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, meanwhile, asked constabulary to support a "static and visible presences" extracurricular synagogues and religion schools up of nan Jewish vacation of Passover from April 22 to 30, Agence France Presse reported. 

The German hose group Lufthansa, which includes nan German flagship bearer arsenic good arsenic Swiss and Austrian airlines, announced connected Sunday that it was suspending flights to Amman, Erbil and Tel Aviv until astatine slightest Tuesday and flights to Beirut and Tehran until astatine slightest Thursday arsenic it continues to measure nan information business successful nan Middle East and maintains adjacent interaction pinch authorities, Reuters reported. Lufthansa already announced Friday it was suspending flights to and from Tehran until astatine slightest April 18. 

On Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement condemning "the superior escalation represented by nan large-scale onslaught launched connected Israel by nan Islamic Republic of Iran this evening," calling for an "immediate cessation of these hostilities." 

Palestine Square successful Tehran, connected April 14, 2024.  (HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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"I americium profoundly alarmed astir nan very existent threat of a devastating region-wide escalation. I impulse each parties to workout maximum restraint to debar immoderate action that could lead to awesome subject confrontations connected aggregate fronts successful nan Middle East," he said. "I person many times stressed that neither nan region nor nan world tin spend different war." 

Iranian pro-government supporters outcry anti-Israel slogans astatine Palestine Square successful Tehran, connected April 14, 2024.  (HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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Pope Francis connected Sunday pleaded pinch Iran and Israel to "for a halt to immoderate action that could substance a spiral of unit pinch nan consequence of dragging nan Middle East into an moreover greater conflict," Reuters reported.