While Lebanon bleeds, many essential medicines are unobtainable in mainstream hospitals and pharmacies. Yet in Hezbollah-land a parallel system of health facilities exists where a full spectrum of cheap Iran-imported drugs are readily available.

Lebanon is doubly threatened by war from the outside and inside. If Israel, America, and Iran and its proxies do indeed go to war, they would be fighting primarily on a Lebanese battlefield, and the country is simultaneously tearing itself apart from within.

Does Iran want war?

Are Western states serious about a hasty return to a salvaged version of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran? They should take a hard look at the sum total of Tehran’s nefarious activities and think again.