Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, ordered Ibrahim Chararah, the Lebanese Consul General in Detroit, to leave the soil of this country.

According to reports, Mr. Chararah has left U.S. soil.

The decision was made after the U.S. State Department designated him as an “undesirable element.”

The reason for this action was the posting of content on social media by Mr. Chararah in 2021 that appeared to praise the 1983 bombing against the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut; an attack that led to the deaths of 241 U.S. servicemen.

The spokesperson for the State Department confirmed that the Lebanese consular official in Detroit has been designated an undesirable element and said that people who praise or justify terrorist attacks in the United States have no place in this country.

Youssef Reji, Lebanon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced late on Sunday that a diplomat would be sent to Detroit in the state of Michigan to replace Ibrahim Chararah as Consul General.

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