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

Analyst says Iran-backed Hezbollah's war with Israel holds Lebanon hostage, with state powerless to enforce disarmament. | Contesto: cronaca

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

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In early March, the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah plunged Lebanon into a direct and ongoing conflict with Israel, a war that, six weeks later, continues to rage despite significant setbacks suffered by the group earlier this year. The fighting has locked the two sides into a punishing cycle of cross-border strikes, drawing in international actors and raising the specter of a broader regional conflagration. The immediate trigger for the escalation remains a point of contention, but the entrenched hostility and Hezbollah's vast arsenal of rockets pointed at Israel created a tinderbox waiting to ignite. The persistence of Hezbollah's military campaign, analysts note, underscores its role as a proxy of Iran, acting on strategic directives from Tehran rather than the interests of the Lebanese state. "Lebanon is being held hostage to Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest," said Dr. Matthew Levitt, the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute and Director of its Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. This dynamic effectively nullifies the sovereignty of the Lebanese government in matters of war and peace, placing the fate of the nation in the hands of a non-state actor with a foreign patron. Hezbollah's ability to sustain a high-intensity conflict for over a month, following a year of reported internal challenges, points to deep reserves of manpower, weaponry, and funding. The group has evolved from a guerrilla force into a hybrid army, possessing precision-guided missiles, drones, and a battle-hardened cadre of fighters seasoned in the Syrian civil war. Its integrated political and military wings within Lebanon provide it with both a societal shield and an operational infrastructure that is difficult to dismantle. The central, and long-deferred, question for Lebanon's political establishment is whether it can ever succeed in disarming Hezbollah, as mandated by multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions. The current war has made this challenge more acute, yet also more distant. The Lebanese state, fractured by sectarian divisions and economic collapse, lacks both the political consensus and the coercive power to confront...

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