The US State Department said Monday that Americans should “depart now” from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen due to “serious safety risks”.

US and European officials, quoted by the New York Times, have said Iran must permanently end all enrichment of uranium, limit the range and number of its ballistic missiles and stop supporting proxy groups in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as part of a new nuclear deal.