Bangladesh government on Sunday enhanced security measures for diplomatic missions of foreign countries in Dhaka amid escalating tensions in the Gulf Arab states following attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran and retaliatory strikes on US bases across the region.

Deputy commissioner Syed Forhad of the Diplomatic Security Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said that security had been heightened at all embassies and missions in Dhaka in view of the conflict in the Gulf following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

‘Additional security measures have also been taken in and around areas such as Gulshan-2, Natun Bazar and Bashtola and some other areas,’ he said.

When asked whether there was any intelligence about possible attacks or protests targeting embassies, the police officer said that neither intelligence agencies nor the metropolitan police’s Crime Division had reported any such threat.

‘If there is any such possibility, they inform us directly,’ he added.

Meanwhile, several political parties on Sunday condemned the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the killing of the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, was killed during the first wave of a large-scale US and Israeli attack on Iran, which continued into Sunday, according to international media reports.

Iran continued retaliatory attacks on the US bases across the Gulf Arab states and Israel, the reports said.