Each of Britain Switzerland and Australia temporarily closed its embassies in Tehran due to the current circumstances, while Tasnim news agency said that a European spy was arrested.
For its part, the British Foreign Ministry said in a statement, “Because of the current security situation, we have taken a preventive action that stipulated a temporary withdrawal of a crew UK From Iran, “adding that” our embassy continues its work from a distance. “
“We are dealing very seriously with the protection of our crew and British citizens, and we have long advised not to go to Iran,” the Foreign Ministry added.
Also, Australia announced today, Friday, that it had suspended its embassy operations in Tehran Its diplomatic staff ordered the departure of Iran.
“It is not an arbitrary decision. It is a decision based on the deterioration of the security situation in Iran“.
The government asked all Australians to leave Iran if they were able to do so safely, pointing out that about two thousand Australians and members of their families want to leave Iran, knowing that 1,200 Australian citizens are in Israel.
On Friday, Switzerland announced the closure of its embassy in Tehran, temporarily, explaining that it will continue to play its role in representing American interests in Iran.
“Given the intensity of military operations in Iran and the very unstable situation on the ground, the Federal Foreign Ministry decided to close the Swiss embassy in Tehran temporarily,” the Swiss Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
5 Swiss staff and accompanying them left Iran to Turkmenistan on June 17. The remaining seven employees, including Ambassador Nadine Olivieri Luzano, left Iran by land and reached Azerbaijan.
“In agreement with the countries concerned, Switzerland continues to carry out its tasks as a force that protects American interests in Iran as part of its good endeavors,” the statement said. Thus, Switzerland maintains its role as a mediator to transmit messages that “the parties see it useful.”
It is mentioned that in the absence of diplomatic and consular relations between US And Iran, Switzerland represents through its embassy in Tehran to officially American interests in Iran since 1980.
In addition to the three countries mentioned, Portugal, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and New Zealand were closed in temporary diplomatic missions.
European spy
On the security level, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Friday that a spy was arrested of European nationality.
The agency stated that “a European citizen who wanted to spy on sensitive areas in the country” in southwestern Iran was arrested, without specifying his identity or arrest date. “He went to the country as a tourist with the start of the brutal attack of the Zionist regime,” she added.
The Iranian authorities launched a massive campaign to stop security breakthroughs in the country after the war revealed large security gaps in Iran after the assassinations of leaders and scientists, and announced over the past week the arrest of a number of people in several provinces that they said were related to Israel and its external intelligence (Mossad).