US President Donald Trump’s latest push to stabilise the Middle East around a fragile Iran nuclear negotiation has pulled an unexpected actor directly into the centre of the crisis -- Hezbollah.
Trump has intervened personally in the Israel-Hezbollah escalation, spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a reportedly heated call, and moved to block Israeli strikes on Beirut at a moment when diplomacy with Iran is hanging by a thread. The result is a rapidly shifting equation where Lebanon is no longer just a secondary theatre of the Iran war but a central pressure point in Trump’s diplomatic strategy.
