Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, ordered Ibrahim Sharara, the Consul General of Lebanon in Detroit, to leave the territory of this country.
Mr. Sharara has reportedly left American soil.
This decision was made after the US State Department declared him an "undesirable party".
The reason for this action was the posting of material on social media by Mr. Sharara in 2021 that appeared to praise the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut; A ground attack that resulted in the killing of 241 American soldiers.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the Lebanese consul in Detroit was defined as an undesirable person and said that people who praise or justify assassination attacks in the United States have no place in this country.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Reji announced late Sunday that a diplomat would be sent to Detroit, Michigan to replace Ibrahim Sharara as consul general.
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