The U.S. Embassy issued the statement after growing tensions following the US and Israel attack on Iran
Americans in Oman have been told to ‘take shelter’ due to the ongoing strikes in the Middle East. The US Embassy issued the stark warning this morning (March 3) as well as advising people stock up on emergency supplies.
The statement read: “Due to ongoing activity outside of Muscat, the U.S. Embassy in Oman has instructed staff to shelter-in-place (i.e., take cover). We recommend all Americans in Oman do the same until further notice.”
Americans have been told to build up an emergency supply of food, water, medication, and other essential items, the Mirror reports. This comes after after a joint attack on Iran by the US and Israel.
The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the initial strikes on Saturday, February 28.
Since then, Iran has launched a number of retaliatory strikes on various military bases in the Middle East and beyond. On Sunday, an Iranian missile strike killed nine people in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh.
The Israeli military said it had also begun attacking the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah at sites across Lebanon.
At least 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut’s suburbs and southern Lebanon on Monday, while 154 were left injured, according to state-run media. The attacks came after Hezbollah fired missiles and drones towards an IDF site in the northern city of Haifa.
Iran has today held a mass funeral for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed over the weekend in what it described as a US-Israeli attack on a girls school in the city of Minab. The latest warning to Americans comes just a day after the US Embassy in Bahrain told US nationals that “terrorist groups are intent” on attacking them.
Americans were asked to avoid hotels in the capital city due to possible attacks which the embassy warned could come “with little or no warning”. In an alert issued yesterday morning, the embassy said “drone and missile attacks from Iran continue,” as it warned US nationals “terrorists may attack with little or no warning”.
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