Mora Namdar

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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.

Two days after Operation Epic Fury began, the State Department posted a social media message urging roughly 500,000 Americans in the Middle East to leave using commercial transportation — but the phone hotline it directed them to played a recorded message stating "Please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time." The contradiction emerged as regional airspace closures and airport strikes made commercial options scarce. Analysts attributed the failure to wartime operational secrecy that prevented State Department pre-positioning of evacuation assets.