A year after Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, pressure is mounting on the Lebanese government to take extreme measures to disarm the militant group and cut off its links with its main benefactor, Iran. The US has informed President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam that, unless concrete steps are taken to end all sources of finance to the group and to dismantle its weapons, Washington cannot guarantee that Israel will not intervene to end Hezbollah’s threat.