{"id":2730,"date":"2026-06-23T07:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:07:38","slug":"new-lebanon-israel-talks-to-begin-in-shadow-of-us-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"New Lebanon-Israel talks to begin, in shadow of US-Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>BEIRUT, June 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Lebanon heads into a new round of talks with Israel on Tuesday in Washington, with Beirut determined to press ahead \u200bwith direct negotiations even as they appear to be overshadowed by Iran&#8217;s decision to make Lebanon part of its negotiations with the United \u200cStates.<\/div><div>Lebanese officials have insisted that face-to-face negotiations with Israel are the only way to secure an end to the war raging since March 2, when armed group Hezbollah fired at Israel in support of Iran and triggered Israeli air and ground attacks that have killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon.<\/div><div>But four rounds of Lebanese-Israeli talks since April failed to produce a durable ceasefire.<\/div><div>Instead, the longest \u200blull in fighting came this week after Iran and the U.S. agreed a memorandum of understanding that stipulated fighting would halt across all fronts, including \u200bLebanon.<\/div><div>That deal buoyed Iran-backed Hezbollah and dealt a blow to the Lebanese state, whose leaders including President Joseph Aoun had repeatedly warned \u2060that Tehran cannot negotiate on Lebanon&#8217;s behalf.<\/div><div>A Lebanese official and two foreign officials working on Lebanon told Reuters the Iran-U.S. deal had pulled the rug out from \u200bthe Lebanese state, leaving it in its weakest position yet and throwing into question the utility of its talks with Israel this week.<\/div><div>The Lebanese official was skeptical \u200bthat any tangible progress would come out of the negotiations, which are set to last for three days.<\/div><div>&#8220;There remains a fundamental problem of trust between us and the Israelis in these talks. We cannot fulfill their demands, and they reject all of ours,&#8221; the official said.<\/div><h2>LEBANON TO SEEK ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL TIMELINE<\/h2><div>Lebanon has said that one of its key goals in the talks would \u200bbe securing an Israeli military withdrawal, but top Israeli officials have said that troops would remain in southern Lebanon indefinitely.<\/div><div>The Lebanese official said that Beirut would demand \u200bIsrael present a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; timetable for its withdrawal at the talks.<\/div><div>&#8220;This is the only chance we have to generate momentum in these talks, and in this tug-of-war with Iran,&#8221; the official said.<\/div><div>Israel, \u200cmeanwhile, sees \u2060the purpose of the upcoming talks as &#8220;disarming Hezbollah and achieving a genuine peace agreement&#8221; with Lebanon, according to a briefing by Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer on the eve of the new negotiations.<\/div><div>Mencer said the only impediment to a deal with Lebanon was Hezbollah, &#8220;which is why we believe that they should be disarmed and dismantled.&#8221;<\/div><div>The Lebanese government has moved carefully since 2025 to disarm Hezbollah without confronting the group directly, fearing it would spark a civil conflict.<\/div><div>Hezbollah has rejected disarming in full \u200band has called on the government to \u200bwithdraw from its direct talks with \u2060Israel.<\/div><h2>HEZBOLLAH BETS ON IRAN AS NEGOTIATOR<\/h2><div>Karim Safieddine, a fellow at the Washington-based Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, told Reuters there was a risk that Israel could assume an even more hardline position in the Washington talks given its officials&#8217; anger over \u200bthe U.S.-Iran deal.<\/div><div>While that deal had brought relative calm to Lebanon, there was &#8220;no structural change&#8221; in the Lebanese and Israeli \u200bpositions that indicated \u2060progress could be made at the negotiating table, Safieddine said.<\/div><div>Aoun first proposed direct talks in March but they only began in mid-April, after the U.S. announced a ceasefire to enable a diplomatic process that Washington said would ultimately lead to a peace deal.<\/div><div>Israeli air strikes on Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs then largely stopped, but fierce fighting continued in southern Lebanon as \u2060Israeli troops \u200bpushed deeper into Lebanese villages.<\/div><div>The U.S. announced a new ceasefire initiative in early June again as part of \u200bthe Lebanese-Israeli talks, but it was contingent on Hezbollah halting fire and was rejected by the group.<\/div><div>Hezbollah expects Iran to demand an Israeli withdrawal as it pursues talks with the U.S. on a final deal, \u200band says the Lebanese government should bet on that track instead of its direct negotiations.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Maya Gebeily\" class=\"wp-image-418\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105afb4f73ebd610598eecfa87907bf5.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Maya Gebeily<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2728\">Rubio faces tough task of selling Iran reset to wary Gulf allies<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2726\">Undoing the \u2018tangled nest\u2019 of Iran sanctions won\u2019t be easy or quick<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2724\">US waives Iran sanctions, Trump says he will \u2018do what I have to\u2019\u00a0if Tehran misbehaves<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon heads into a new round of talks with Israel on Tuesday in Washington, with Beirut determined to press ahead \u200bwith direct negotiations even as they appear to be overshadowed by Iran&#8217;s decision to make Lebanon part of its negotiations with the United \u200cStates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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