U.S. diplomats warned Saturday that commercial airliners flying over the wider Persian Gulf faced a risk of being “misidentified” amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

The warning relayed by U.S. diplomatic posts from the Federal Aviation Administration underlined the risks the current tensions pose to global air travel in the region.

Also, it has come out that Lloyd’s of London has warned of increasing risks to maritime shipping in the Persian Gulf region as well.

Meanwhile, oil giant ExxonMobil began evacuating staff from Basra, Iraq, where the U.S. Consulate has been closed for months following a rocket attack America blamed on Shiite militias backed by Iran, local authorities said.

The nation of Bahrain has also ordered its citizens out of Iraq and Iran over regional tensions.

Concerns about a possible conflict have flared since the White House ordered warships and bombers to the region to counter an alleged  threat from Iran that has seen America order nonessential diplomatic staff out of Iraq.

Regional tensions remain high. Authorities allege that a sabotage operation targeted four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, and Iran-aligned rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for a drone attack on a crucial Saudi oil pipeline.

Saudi Arabia directly blamed Iran for the drone assault, and a local newspaper called on America to launch “surgical strikes” on Tehran.

The warning to commercial airliners was from an order relayed by U.S. diplomats in Kuwait and the UAE which came from an FAA Notice to Airmen published late Thursday in the U.S.

It said that all commercial aircraft flying over the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman needed to be aware of “heightened military activities and increased political tension.”

Saying this presents “an increasing inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations due to the potential for miscalculation or mis-identification,” the warning said.

It also said aircraft could experience interference with its navigation instruments and communications jamming “with little to no warning.”

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