Iran's Hezbollah Role Stalls Israel-Lebanon Talks
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- Israel and Lebanon are holding their fifth round of direct negotiations in Washington, D.C., this week, a process that first started in April and initially succeeded in boxing out Iran.
Why it matters: This split — Rubio publicly separating the tracks while the VP privately places Iran in a monitoring cell — risks collapsing the talks entirely, especially given Israel's 'train wreck' warning and the original 2024 deconfliction mechanism already having failed when Hezbollah resumed attacks.
