{"id":460456,"date":"2026-05-21T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:14:09","slug":"new-iranian-ambassador-to-ireland-to-take-up-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460456\/","title":{"rendered":"New Iranian Ambassador to Ireland to take up duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Iranian Ambassador to Ireland will officially take up his duties almost six months after being prevented from doing so due to the regime&#8217;s response to protests in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The formal ceremony in January was postponed following a decision by the Department of Foreign Affairs, which deemed it &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; to accredit the diplomat amid a severe crackdown by Iranian authorities on nationwide demonstrations against the government.<\/p>\n<p>Significant numbers of Iranians were killed or injured and there was a communications blackout.<\/p>\n<p>At \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in today, Iran&#8217;s Ambassador Eshagh Alhabib presented his Letter of Credence to President Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival in Ireland, and before they can carry out their work, ambassadors must be officially welcomed by the President.<\/p>\n<p>They are officially accredited once the President accepts their credentials at a ceremony in the State Reception Room.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadors to Portugal and India were also accredited at this afternoon\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadors were accompanied to and from \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in by an escort of honour consisting of a motorcycle detachment.<\/p>\n<p>A guard of honour was provided by the Air Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Iranian Ambassador to Ireland will officially take up his duties almost six months after being prevented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-460456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}