French Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning to its citizens to the countries of the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank. Family members of French diplomats stationed in Iran will be immediately returned to the country.
Civil servants in all the countries included in the list were banned from continuing their work. In the afternoon, Netanyahu will hold a situation assessment discussion on preparing for an attack, with the participation of Gallant and Gantz. The security system is on high alert against the possibility that Iran will react radically to the assassination of a senior Revolutionary Guards officer, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, in the heart of Damascus. The fear in Israel is that the Iranians are preparing for a broad attack that will cause damage and casualties to the Israeli rear since in their view Israel damaged the consulate where ZahedI was staying. Experts in Israel said that this is not a consulate and the Iranians were trying to attribute to Israel a violation of Iranian sovereign space. The threats were repeated two days ago by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdullahian.