{"id":19067,"date":"2026-03-04T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:09:56","slug":"u-s-evacuates-9000-citizens-from-the-middle-east-amid-escalating-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/04\/u-s-evacuates-9000-citizens-from-the-middle-east-amid-escalating-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. evacuates 9,000 citizens from the Middle East amid escalating attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: As Iran intensifies strikes on U.S.-linked targets and bases, the White House says evacuation efforts for American citizens in the Middle East have been ramped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karoline Leavitt, White House spokesperson, announced on X early Wednesday that evacuation operations have accelerated in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Leavitt, approximately 9,000 U.S. citizens have been successfully evacuated from Middle Eastern countries and transported back to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Department of State is undertaking a historic effort to assist American citizens who wish to leave the Middle East and return to the United States,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leavitt added that 300 of those evacuated were brought out of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, the U.S. Secretary of State had stated that another 1,600 American citizens in the region had requested assistance for evacuation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: As Iran intensifies strikes on U.S.-linked targets and bases, the White House says evacuation efforts for American citizens in the Middle East have been ramped up. Karoline Leavitt, White House spokesperson, announced on X early Wednesday that evacuation operations have accelerated in recent days. According to Leavitt, approximately 9,000 U.S. citizens have been successfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19069,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions\/19069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}