Lebanon Presses Direct Israel Talks as Iran Folds Beirut Into Its Own MOU
🇱🇧 BEIRUT — Beirut wants a deal; Tehran wants the same file as leverage. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Lebanon pressing direct Washington talks while Iran folds the file into its own MOU negotiations creates a collision. Beirut's track assumes sovereignty; Tehran treats Lebanon as a compliance variable. If Iran wins this framing, any Lebanon-Israel deal becomes hostage to Iran-US sequencing — handing Tehran a veto it doesn't formally hold.
