Qatar declares two Iranian embassy officials ‘persona non grata’ over attack on gas facility

Qatar, connected Thursday (March 19, 2026), declared Iran’s subject and information attaches “persona non grata” and ordered them to permission the state wrong 24 hours, pursuing Iran’s onslaught connected a monolithic state installation successful Qatar.

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“Qatar considers some the subject attache and the information attache astatine the embassy, successful summation to the unit of the 2 attache offices “persona non grata”, and requests that they permission the state wrong a maximum play of (24) hours,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said successful a statement.

The determination was announced during a gathering connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) betwixt Director of Protocol astatine the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Yousif Fakhro, and Iranian Ambassador to Qatar Ali Salehabadi.

“The ministry explained that this determination comes successful effect to repeated Iranian targeting and the blatant aggression against the State of Qatar, which violated its sovereignty and security, successful a flagrant breach of the principles of planetary law, United Nations Security Council Resolution No. (2817), and the principles of bully neighbourliness,” the connection added.

Qatar said that the continuation of this hostile attack by Iran volition beryllium met with “additional measures”, adding that Qatar “reserves the close to instrumentality each indispensable measures to support its sovereignty and security, successful accordance with the provisions of planetary law.”