Customers listening to a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a café in Chiyah, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Aug. 25, 2024. (Credit: Ibrahim Amro/AFP)
Following Hezbollah’s retaliation to Israel’s assassination of its military chief, Fouad Shukur, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Hezbollah seems keen to return to the rules of engagement established after Oct. 7, 2023, in south Lebanon. This has been clear from the speech Hassan Nasrallah gave immediately after the retaliation, in which he called on residents who had left their homes for fear of escalation to return.A diplomatic source said that several parties worked to calm the situation and reduce the risk of military escalation between Hezbollah and Israel. “Direct and indirect contacts were made by Egypt, the U.S. and Qatar with Hezbollah and Tehran,” the source added.These developments on the Lebanese front are not separate from those in Iran, where reformist former Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who had resigned a few weeks ago,...
Following Hezbollah’s retaliation to Israel’s assassination of its military chief, Fouad Shukur, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Hezbollah seems keen to return to the rules of engagement established after Oct. 7, 2023, in south Lebanon. This has been clear from the speech Hassan Nasrallah gave immediately after the retaliation, in which he called on residents who had left their homes for fear of escalation to return.A diplomatic source said that several parties worked to calm the situation and reduce the risk of military escalation between Hezbollah and Israel. “Direct and indirect contacts were made by Egypt, the U.S. and Qatar with Hezbollah and Tehran,” the source added.These developments on the Lebanese front are not separate from those in Iran, where reformist former Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who had resigned a few weeks...
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