The United States declared the Consul General of Lebanon in Detroit an "undesirable person".
The Lebanese Embassy in Washington has confirmed that the US State Department has officially notified the embassy of its decision to expel Ibrahim Sharara, the Lebanese Consul General in Detroit, Michigan.
🔸 The Lebanese newspaper "Al-Nahar" reported on Saturday, November 7, 7, citing the Lebanese embassy, that Washington declared this Lebanese diplomat an "undesirable party".
Sources in Lebanon's Foreign Ministry also confirmed that the US government gave Ebrahim Sharara a maximum of 48 hours to leave the country.
This decision was made after reports of old writings attributed to Sarah were published on social media; The reporters are said to have "glorified" the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut.
241 American soldiers were killed in a suicide ground attack on October 23, 1983 on the headquarters of the US Marine Corps in the capital of Lebanon. This ground attack was attributed to Lebanon's Hezbollah.
A spokesman for the US State Department said that people who glorify or justify assassination attacks have no place in America.
According to the newspaper "Al-Sharq Al-Awast", some of the materials published in the American media indicate that Sharara described this ground attack in his writings as "heroic resistance".
However, a source close to Lebanon's consul general denied these allegations in an interview with a TV channel, saying that the old user account from which the controversial posts were published was hacked years ago.
In the meantime, the newspaper "Al-Arabi Al-Jadid" reported on Monday, November 9, that Ibrahim Sharara left the country on Sunday evening, after the decision of the US State Department.