403 PERMISSION_DENIED — "Your project has been denied access" on fresh project

Gemini API
1

Help please!

I have a brand new project key that is immediately blocked.

The model name I am calling: gemini-2.5-flash

I am based in Lebanon.

Logs :

Error during document analysis processing: ApiError: {“error”:{“code”:403,“message”:“Your project has been denied access. Please contact support.”,“status”:“PERMISSION_DENIED”}}

2

Sorry to hear about this. We’re treating this as a potential bug in Gemini API. Could you please enter the details of projects receiving unexpected 403 errors into this form?