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Lebanon Bans Hezbollah Military Activities as Assassinated Leaders Expose Proxy Network Collapse

via Washington Examiner·Mar 2·5 sources

In a historic break from decades of tacit accommodation, the Lebanese government officially banned Hezbollah from conducting military activities on Monday after the Iranian-backed terrorist group launched rockets at Israel from Lebanese soil. The ban came hours after reports that top Hezbollah political leader Muhammad Ra'ad — head of the group's parliamentary faction and one of Iran's most prominent proxies in Lebanese politics — was assassinated in Beirut, in what would be the highest-profile elimination of an Iranian proxy leader since the conflict began. The twin developments suggest that Iran's proxy network — the asymmetric warfare architecture built over four decades to project power across the Middle East without direct confrontation — is fracturing under the pressure of Operation Epic Fury. Lebanon's decision to move against Hezbollah, a group that has functioned as a state within a state for generations, represents a tectonic shift in Middle Eastern politics and may signal that governments long held hostage by Iranian proxies see an opening to reclaim sovereignty.

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