Australia has called for its citizens to leave Iran on Wednesday amid the ongoing violent protests — as Tehran’s top Iran’s military chief threatened preemptive military action over President Trump’s threats against its regime.
The nation urged its citizens to leave Iran “as soon as possible” and to avoid travel to the Islamic Republic altogether, citing the “ongoing violent nationwide protests that may further escalate without notice.”
The order came after Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami warned that Iran would not stay quiet after Trump claimed that the US would launch military action if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters” spurred by the country’s ailing economy.
“The Islamic Republic considers the intensification of such rhetoric against the Iranian nation as a threat and will not leave its continuation without a response,” Hatami said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
