OVERNIGHT: US embassies issue new warning to Americans in Mideast

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To the Middle East and a brand new State. Department alert for Americans living. there. Fox News chief foreign. correspondent Trey Yingst joins us from. Tel Aviv. Trey. >> Jackie, good morning. Tension does. remain high across the Middle East as. the State Department is once again. warning American citizens here to remain. vigilant. An alert went out to Americans. overnight warning them of possible. airspace closures and flight. cancellations. The message was sent by. US embassies in various capitals.

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including Jerusalem. While the trigger. for these alerts is unknown, Israeli. officials had previously warned Iran. against attacking their country during. the Jewish high holidays. Tonight, the. holiest day in Judaism, Yom Kippur, begins amid concerns of regional. escalation. >> People don't want to have Iran have a. nuclear weapon. And you know what? They. won't. And the war is going to end soon. And when it ends, your gas prices are. going to drop to a level that they were. before, maybe even lower. >> The Iranians remain defiant saying they.

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won't reengage with the United States. until all of their conditions are met. This includes ending the conflict on all. fronts, unfreezing Iranian assets, and. stopping the naval blockade. CENTCOM. Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced. this weekend that US forces have. overseen 1 billion barrels of crude oil. exported out of the Persian Gulf over. the last several months despite Iranian. attacks. >> Decades of foreign intervention, military pressure, and endless wars in. the Middle East have proven an. undeniable truth. Military intervention.

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does not create security. And the exertion of pressure and. coercion does not lead to peace. Instead, war has been normalized as a. primary instrument of international. relations and has led to the. perpetuation of pattern of perpetual. confrontation and conflict. >> I spoke with President Trump this. morning who told Fox News he is. currently in a deciding mode as it. relates to Iran. Jackie. >> Trey Yingst, thank you.