By bno - Surabaya Office As geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel escalate, the Malaysian government has issued a travel advisory for three Middle Eastern countries -Iran, Iraq, and Jordan - urging its citizens to avoid non-essential travel due to heightened security risks and disruptions in airspace security.

Israel and Iran's long-simmering tensions erupted into missile attacks last Friday, when Israel launched a suprise attack against military and nuclear targets in Iran and wiped out the top echelon of Iran's military command.

When Israel first targeted Iran on June 13 in what it called precision strikes to curtail Tehran's nuclear ambitions and killing high-ranking officials, not many thought Tehran would retaliate on this scale.