Iran says four of its diplomats were killed in weekend Israeli strike on Beirut hotel

Iran accused Israel on Tuesday of killing four of its diplomats in a weekend strike on a seafront hotel in Beirut, according to a letter addressed to the United Nations chief.

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“In the early hours of Sunday, 8 March 2026, the Israeli regime carried out a deliberate terrorist attack against the Ramada Hotel in Beirut, which resulted in the assassination and martyrdom of four diplomats of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Tehran’s permanent mission to the UN said.

The Israeli military had previously claimed responsibility for the attack.

It said it had “conducted a precise strike targeting key commanders” in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, its foreign operations arm.

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