The U.S. State Department earlier authorized nonessential employees at the American Embassy in Israel to leave the country due to “safety risks.”
U.S. President Donald Trump is currently weighing a military strike on Iran in a bid to stamp out its nuclear program.
White House officials are weighing the options available, with Israel seen as a key partner in any military action.
Trump insisted in his State of the Union address that he wants to figure out a diplomatic solution with the Middle East country.
“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terror — which they are by far— to have a nuclear weapon,” he said at the State of the Union address Tuesday.
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said earlier this week: “There’s a political process ongoing between the U.S. and Iran, which the U.K. supports. Iran must never be able to develop a nuclear weapon, and our priority is security in the region.”