Tehran: After Poland, Serbia has appealed to its citizens to leave Iran. The Serbian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on its website. “Due to the deteriorating security situation, citizens of the Republic of Serbia are not advised to travel to Iran,” the statement said. At the same time, all the people present in Iran are advised to leave the country as soon as possible. In fact, America has made the largest military deployment in the Middle East in the last 22 years. US President Donald Trump is also threatening military action against the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. Amidst all these warnings and threats, Serbia has appealed to its citizens in Iran to leave the country ‘as soon as possible’.

Why did Poland ask its people to leave Iran?

In January itself, the Balkan country had asked Serbian citizens to leave Iran and not go there. Large-scale protests were going on in the country in late December 2025 and early January 2026. On Thursday itself, Polish PM Donald Tusk had appealed to his people not to go to Iran and return from there. He said that given the current situation, Polish citizens present in Iran should leave immediately because ‘it will not be possible to leave within a few hours’ due to the fear of armed conflict.

Donald Tusk warned

Tusk said, ‘Please leave Iran immediately… and do not go to this country under any circumstances.’ ‘I don’t want to scare anyone, but we all know what I’m talking about,’ he was quoted as saying by media in the town of Zielanka near Warsaw. There is a possibility of a fight. The Prime Minister warned that ‘it will not be possible to evacuate people in a few or very many hours.’ He appealed to the people of Poland to take the warning seriously. The Polish government did not give details about how many Polish citizens are living in Iran. Tusk said, ‘Our experiences have been bad. Some people underestimate such appeals.

Meanwhile, according to American media reports, if Trump decides to attack, he has many military options. These include limited and targeted attacks to military operations that can last for several weeks. Some also include preparations to target Tehran’s top leadership.