🔶 US State Department official: The order to remove non-essential US workers includes only Saudi Arabia.

🔶 US State Department official: The order to remove non-essential US workers includes only Saudi Arabia.

An hour after the publication of the reports according to which "the United States is preparing to order the departure of its embassies from the Middle East", the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country denied these reports and clarified that the warning distributed only includes the American workers stationed in Saudi Arabia.

Earlier, the Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday, October 21, citing three US officials, that the US State Department is preparing to issue an order to remove a number of employees and their family members from US embassies in the countries of the Persian Gulf region. Tommy Pigott, spokesman for the US State Department, in response to a Reuters report on the issuance of an order to leave US embassy employees from the countries of the Persian Gulf region, through the publication of a message on Channel X, wrote: "This report is false and an order to leave was issued only to non-essential employees of the US government and Saudi Arabia.