{"id":356761,"date":"2026-03-25T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/356761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:50:08","slug":"lebanon-orders-irans-ambassador-out-escalating-a-crackdown-on-tehrans-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/356761\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon orders Iran\u2019s ambassador out, escalating a crackdown on Tehran\u2019s influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SBXXRUHZ5ZB6JFUB2DHBP6RWCA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BEIRUT \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lebanon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon\u2019s<\/a> Foreign Ministry declared <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran\u2019s<\/a> ambassador to Beirut persona non grata Tuesday, ordering him to leave the country by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HHKZJSWBJFCA3FQXTVN3L7D6CU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The decision was the clearest sign yet of deteriorating relations between the two countries and raises tensions within Lebanon over the role of Tehran and its Lebanon-based ally, the militant <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/hezbollah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIRUT \u2014 Lebanon\u2019s Foreign Ministry declared Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut persona non grata Tuesday, ordering him to leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,42,117780,3896,172938,43,40,38,41,39,121,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-356761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-general-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran-war","11":"tag-military-and-defense","12":"tag-ml-lebanon-iran","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-war-and-unrest","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}