Construction of the largest US embassy; A city in Lebanon to coordinate anti-resistance measures.
Published pictures and videos of the construction of the largest US embassy in West Asia in Lebanon – with an area of 180,000 square meters and a cost of 1.2 billion dollars – which is like a complete city, has caused a great deal of noise.
This week, they released pictures of the new US embassy in Lebanon, which has been under construction for more than two years. The embassy is located in the Awkar area of northern Beirut.
In a note written by Kamal Khalaf, the Rai Al-Youm newspaper wrote that reports of the largest US embassy in the Arab world in Lebanon had caused a great deal of criticism and criticism from Lebanese people on social media, and questions about the construction of a “complete city called the embassy.” ” Created.
According to the report, the area where the embassy is to be built will reach 180,000 square meters, and according to the US State Department document, its construction is expected to be completed by 2023 at a cost of 1.2 billion dollars. The embassy includes airports, entertainment venues, consulate buildings and residential units.
The project raises questions about media propaganda posed by some Lebanese media and political figures about “the extent of Iran’s influence in Lebanon,” propaganda that the United States and some Gulf states are behind, when in fact Quite the opposite. The largest US embassy in West Asia was built in Baghdad after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but the new US embassy in Lebanon is superior to the embassy in Baghdad in terms of size, facilities and cost. The US embassy in Iraq was built at a cost of $ 600 million, but the estimated cost of building the US embassy in Lebanon is more than 1.2 billion tomans, which means that the US embassy in Lebanon will be larger than its embassy in a country that Occupied through direct military attack.
