The United States has closed its embassy in Lebanon amid the worsening situation in the region.

The US Embassy in Beirut has suspended operations indefinitely due to ongoing tensions in the region. This was announced on March 3 by the press service of the diplomatic mission.

"Due to the ongoing tensions in the region, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut will be closed until further notice. All regular and emergency consular receptions have been canceled," the statement on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

It is reported that the embassy will return to normal operation later.

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The day before, the American Embassy in Lebanon called on its citizens to leave the country immediately. The diplomatic mission noted that airstrikes are carried out in different regions of the country.

Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported 31 dead and 149 injured after Israeli attacks. Earlier, Sabereen news reported that three women were killed in an Israeli attack on the Lebanese city of Shehabiya.

On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military operation in Iran. Trump called her goal the protection of the American people. As part of the Israeli-American Operation Lion's Roar, military installations in western Iran, the residence of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as an elementary school in the city of Minab were hit.

In response, Iran launched Operation True Promise 4 and attacked American military bases in the Middle East, as well as Israeli cities. Later, on March 1, it became known that the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed as a result of Israeli attacks. An interim governing council has been established in the country.

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