(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) The US-Israeli war against Iran is already expanding into Lebanon with an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but Reuters is now reporting that the Trump Administration is keen to drag Syria into the conflict as well, encouraging its Islamist government to invade Lebanon and fight Hezbollah.
Citing multiple Syrian officials familiar with the situation, as well as Western diplomats, the report is that the US began pushing this idea roughly when the Iran war began. US officials have been denouncing Lebanon as a “failed state” for months, and have cheered the Israeli invasion targeting Shi’ite Hezbollah as an Iranian ally.
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