Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday evening via X that it has declared the military and security attaches of the Iranian Embassy, along with their office staff, persona non grata, ordering them to leave the country within 24 hours
The ministry cited repeated Iranian acts of aggression toward Qatar as the reason for the expulsion.
The move came amid heightened tensions following an Iranian missile strike on Ras Laffan Industrial City, the massive complex northeast of Doha that hosts the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.
QatarEnergy confirmed that the missile caused “extensive damage,” but all personnel were accounted for and no casualties were reported. Civil defense teams were deployed to control fires at the facility, which produces roughly 20 percent of global LNG supply.
These developments—one diplomatic and one military—mark the most serious rupture yet between Qatar and Iran, two nations that have maintained a decades-long partnership, closely linked through the shared gas field beneath their territorial waters.
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