Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Sharara, was declared persona non grata and must leave the US immediately after his 2021 social media post resurfaced praising the Hezbollah bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 US service members. Sharara himself denies the publication and claims that it is a hack into his old account on Platform X.

Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Sharara, was declared persona non grata and must leave the US immediately after his 2021 social media post resurfaced praising the Hezbollah bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 US service members. Sharara himself denies the publication and claims that it is a hack into his old account on Platform X.