{"id":460630,"date":"2026-05-21T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:39:10","slug":"iran-ambassador-to-ireland-ceremony-goes-ahead-after-protests-related-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460630\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ambassador to Ireland ceremony goes ahead after protests-related delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian ambassador to Ireland has been presented with credentials, four months after the ceremony was postponed because of the suppression of protests in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Eshagh Alhabib presented his Letters of Credence to President Catherine Connolly at \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the decision to delay the ceremony was taken after a \u201csignificant\u201d number of Iranian demonstrators were killed and injured.<\/p>\n<p>Protests sparked by the country\u2019s ailing economy began in late December and escalated into rallies opposing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his regime.<\/p>\n<p>They continued despite the internet and telephone lines being cut off, and thousands were killed and detained in a bloody crackdown by the Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the US commenced airstrikes on the country, killing Mr Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement at the time, the Department of Foreign Affairs said: \u201cThe decision to postpone the ceremony of credentials for the Ambassador-designate of the Islamic Republic of Iran was taken in light of protests in Iran in recent days, which have seen very significant numbers of Iranians killed or injured and a communications blackout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/macron-shows-taoiseach-very-moving-letters-from-wolfe-tone-to-france-1903146.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/macron-shows-taoiseach-very-moving-letters-from-wolfe-tone-to-france-1903146.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2-84699177-e1779383477132.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Macron Shows Taoiseach \u2018Very Moving\u2019 Letters From Wolfe Tone To France\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Macron shows Taoiseach \u2018very moving\u2019 letters from Wolfe Tone to France<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Alhabib was accompanied at Thursday\u2019s ceremony by his wife and the deputy head of mission at the Iranian embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadors of Portugal and India presented their Letters of Credence to the president in the same ceremony, which was also attended by Emer Higgins, a minister at the Department of Children, Disability and Equality.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadors were accompanied to and from the president\u2019s residence by a motorcycle escort; there, they were met by an air corps guard of honour and a Defence Forces band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iranian ambassador to Ireland has been presented with credentials, four months after the ceremony was postponed because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-460630","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\/460630","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=460630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}