Lebanon: America’s bargaining chip in its standoff with Iran

Lebanon is paying the ultimate price in this latest round of war amid regional and international silence (File/AFP)

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Lebanon, home to millennia of human history, is being flattened as it is being used as a bargaining chip in the US-Iran standoff. President Donald Trump this week halted an Israeli onslaught on the capital, Beirut, claiming that he had managed to reinstate a ceasefire agreement between the pro-Iran Hezbollah and Tel Aviv, under which the militant group would suspend its drone attacks on Israel’s north in exchange for an Israeli commitment not to bomb the Lebanese capital.