Tel Aviv —
From Washington to Tehran, all eyes are on Lebanon.
That’s because the future of the Iran war – and the prospects for a deal to end it – could now hinge on what happens in Lebanon, where a secondary front in this regional war is taking center stage. That new reality is the result of Iran’s relentless efforts to link the fate of both conflicts, and of the increasingly diverging priorities of the US president and the Israeli prime minister.
The 12-hour exchange of fire between Israel and Iran had barely ended on Monday when Lebanon’s key role was brought to the fore once again.
In the same breath that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it would cease fire against Israel, it threatened to resume those strikes unless Israel halted its attacks on both Iran and Lebanon, where Tehran’s most powerful regional proxy, Hezbollah, is based.
