Multiple US embassies are telling Americans they cannot evacuate or help them get out of the Middle East
Source: Business Insider
Mar 3, 2026, 7:13 AM ET
American citizens across the Middle East are attempting to follow official advice and evacuate as conflict escalates in the region following US and Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday.
But multiple US embassies have said they are unable to help citizens trying to leave.
"The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel," the US Embassy in Jerusalem said in a post on X on Tuesday. The embassy shared that the Israeli Ministry of Tourism was operating shuttles to a border crossing between Egypt and Israel at the town of Taba.
"If you choose to avail yourself of this option to depart, the US government cannot guarantee your safety," said the US embassy, adding that they were sharing the information "as a courtesy to those wishing to leave Israel."
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3
C_U_L8R
(49,256 posts)It seems he seriously believed just dropping bombs would be the solution. What a dumbass. And that goes for Rubio and Hegseth too.
Hugin
(37,758 posts)1940 wants its bumper sticker back.
mercuryblues
(16,337 posts)Harker
(17,686 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,999 posts)His malicious use of Russell Vought and his billionaire puppeter MUSK to make chainsaw cuts to the State Department and the Foreign Service have left them barely able to maintain essential services let alone manage a disaster like this.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/state-department-low-morale
Prairie Gates
(7,796 posts)Yeeeehaaaaw!
Hugin
(37,758 posts)Gee, imagine that.
Lovie777
(22,633 posts)the Republican Party hair would be on fire:
1. impeachment would be on the table:
a. unconstitutional war (did not get approval from congress);
b. did not have a plan; did not have a plan in evacuating American citizen;
c. caused the deaths of 6 US soldiers (regarding the make shift facility, too);
d. constantly lying and falsifying the situations..........................................................
et al.
yardwork
(69,242 posts)PatSeg
(52,991 posts)Time to call in Hillary for another congressional hearing!
These people are absolute monsters.
mcar
(45,905 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,030 posts)RainCaster
(13,597 posts)And they received advance notice, too.
Marthe48
(23,001 posts)How many embassy staffers have skills, knowledge, experience to avert a disaster like this? traitor felon pedo will get them killed off and put idiot hardliners in.
I've lived with the idea of destruction of the world my whole life. I thought it'd hold off a few more generations. It was one can I hoped would get kicked down the road forever.
I hope the Americans trapped in target countries get out safely.
purr-rat beauty
(1,185 posts)It'll be Biden's fault anyways
right?
So sayeth FOX
HighFired49
(478 posts)He just said it live on a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT on national TV broadcast, that if he had been President during that time this war would never have happened. Just like everything else he does, this is just psychopathic, twisted reasoning, or just never taking blame.
enough
(13,727 posts)in helping Americans with anything.
Solly Mack
(96,776 posts)Fucking assholes.
Mblaze
(971 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(5,663 posts)for oil execs, mercs, weapons dealers, and such.
Bayard
(29,301 posts)Wonder if he had any input in the trump/Bibi war. He may just be anticipating his rapture though, and celebrating.
sarisataka
(22,437 posts)Students, aid workers, tourists?
Because I would bet they outnumber oil execs, mercs, weapons dealers by about 100:0.1
Miguelito Loveless
(5,663 posts)I have sympathy for aid workers, but would question why tourists would want to patronize a volatile region with very sketchy human rights records. Of course, this is now true for the US under the Child Rape Regime.
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,568 posts)at the embassies to enable such.
twodogsbarking
(18,336 posts)Oh wait, I didn't mean to say that out loud.