US moves to sideline Iran in Lebanon, but the conflicts remain intertwined

Before last week’s talks with the US in Islamabad, Iran’s two lead negotiators threatened to scrap negotiations unless a Lebanon ceasefire was secured in advance. No ceasefire materialized, yet the talks went ahead at the highest level in decades.In parallel, a coordinated media campaign appeared to take shape among the Iranian regime’s allies, both domestically and across the region, shifting focus squarely onto Lebanon.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and their lead negotiator, repeatedly framed a Lebanon ceasefire as a precondition for engaging with Washington. As recently as Wednesday, he wrote on X that any ceasefire would come as a result of “the great Hezbollah and the unity of the Axis of Resistance.”The messaging extended beyond Tehran. Ahead of the Pakistan talks, the editor-in-chief of Hezbollah-linked Al-Akhbar in Beirut called for the overthrow of the Lebanese government,

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