Iran strikes U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as six embassies are evacuated across Middle East

Iranian drones struck the US Embassy compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 3, with two drones penetrating the diplomatic quarter and severely damaging three floors of a secure wing. The CIA station inside the compound was also hit. The State Department ordered non-emergency staff evacuations from US missions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, and Jordan and issued shelter-in-place alerts for Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dhahran. The attack marked the first direct Iranian strike on a US diplomatic facility since the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis.