Hezbollah is losing its iron-tight grip over Lebanon
After more than a year of war and turmoil, the organisation is on its shakiest ground in years, as power dynamics are being realigned across the Middle East.
The election of Joseph Aoun as Lebanon’s new president is being viewed as a crucial step in returning stability to the country. AP
For decades, Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon was iron-tight.
With its vast arsenal, the militant group was more powerful than the country’s national military. It controlled or held sway over Lebanon’s most important government agencies as well as critical infrastructure, such as its border with Syria and commercial port. Almost no major political decisions could be made without its backing, and no political party could seriously challenge any move it, or its patron Iran, made.
