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The base has long been strategically important for the US, which has used it in military operations from the Vietnam War to the invasion of Iraq and in other more recent conflicts.
The British government has said US bombers can use some British bases, including Diego Garcia, for operations to prevent Iran attacking ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway.
The suggestions include reducing driving speeds by at least six miles per hour on highways and taking public transport or car sharing.
The war between the US and Israel and Iran has disrupted oil tankers moving through the critical Strait of Hormuz waterway and damaged energy infrastructure across the Gulf.
The IEA says it could take months or even years to restore oil and gas flows from the region.
Shadi describes the scene she witnessed while she accompanied her mother to a hospital for cancer treatment.
They passed government buildings, military bases and centres for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, shattered by US and Israeli airstrikes.
Their lives too are now caught in the anatomy of this war.
They wait in line to buy gas or bread.
And Shadi says her seven-year-old niece wakes in the night in fear from the bombs.
Shadi wants to see the regime fall, but this situation is difficult too.
Every two or three days I make a dessert or a cake, she says, so that I can stay connected to life.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, near the border with Iran.
The people coming out of Iran look gray-faced and pallid from the terror they've experienced this past week.
They bring with them stories of airstrikes hitting close to their cars as they journeyed out of the country, of intense bombardments in the cities that they've come from, many with stories of civilian casualties, saying these airstrikes are landing in dense residential neighbourhoods.
There are also many people going back into Iran.
Scared, of course, they say, to go back into a country at war.
But with communications largely down, they need to know if their loved ones are safe.