Qatar has expelled key Iranian army and safety officers on Wednesday, sharply escalating tensions within the Gulf following latest missile strikes on essential vitality infrastructure.
In an announcement issued on Thursday, Qatar’s Overseas Ministry stated it had declared the army and safety attaches on the Iranian embassy, together with their workers, “persona non grata” and ordered them to go away the nation inside 24 hours.
“The Ministry of Overseas Affairs delivered an official observe to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the State, stating that Qatar considers each the army attache and the safety attache on the embassy, along with the workers of the 2 attache places of work ‘persona non grata’, and requests that they go away the nation inside a most interval of (24) hours,” the ministry stated.
The ministry defined that this choice is available in response to repeated Iranian focusing on and the blatant aggression in opposition to the State of Qatar, which violated its sovereignty and safety, in a flagrant breach of the ideas of worldwide regulation, United Nations Safety Council Decision No. (2817), and the ideas of excellent neighborliness, the international ministry stated.
Qatar Declares Iranian Embassy Navy, Safety Attaches “Persona Non Grata”
Doha | March 18, 2026
The Ministry of Overseas Affairs delivered an official observe to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the State, stating that Qatar considers each the army attache… pic.twitter.com/yQachiM7Pk
— Ministry of Overseas Affairs – Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) March 18, 2026
Missile strikes on the Ras Laffan Industrial Metropolis on Qatar’s north coast on Wednesday brought on harm to a gas-to-liquids facility and early on Thursday sparked “seizeable fires and intensive additional harm” to a number of liquefied pure fuel services, QatarEnergy stated in an announcement.
