'Lebanon is being held hostage by Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest'

Analysts warn Hezbollah's war with Israel, sustained by Iranian support, has crippled the Lebanese state and its ability to enforce sovereignty. | Contesto: cronaca

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• 'Lebanon is being held hostage by Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest'

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In early March, the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah initiated a sustained military conflict with Israel, plunging Lebanon into a war that has now raged for over six weeks. The fighting, concentrated along the volatile southern border, has resulted in significant casualties, widespread displacement of civilians on both sides, and the systematic destruction of border villages. Despite suffering notable operational and financial setbacks earlier in the year, Hezbollah has continued to launch daily rocket, drone, and anti-tank missile attacks, drawing increasingly severe Israeli airstrikes deep into Lebanese territory. The group's unilateral decision to go to war has effectively sidelined the official Lebanese state, which exercises no authority over Hezbollah's independent military arsenal or its strategic decisions. The persistence of Hezbollah's campaign, analysts argue, is fundamentally enabled by its patron, Iran. "Hezbollah is not an independent Lebanese actor; it is a strategic asset of the Islamic Republic," said Dr. Matthew Levitt, the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and Director of its Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. "Its decisions on war and peace are made in Tehran, not Beirut." This dynamic, according to regional experts, means the conflict's duration and intensity are dictated by Iranian geopolitical calculations within its broader confrontation with Israel and the West, with Lebanon bearing the devastating consequences. The group's vast arsenal, estimated to include over 150,000 rockets and precision-guided missiles, has been built and replenished for years via Iranian supply lines, insulating it from the crippling economic pressures that have paralyzed the Lebanese state. Hezbollah's entrenched power has long neutered the Lebanese government, rendering it a hostage to the group's agenda. The state possesses neither the political consensus nor the military capability to challenge Hezbollah's "state-within-a-state" structure. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), while receiving international support, are widely viewed as being outgunned by Hezbollah and hesitant to trigger a civil war. Furthermore,...

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