“While the Trump administration sees the political crisis as an opportunity to drive through anticorruption reforms, quashing Hezbollah’s influence has long been one of Washington’s top foreign-policy agenda items”
“Beyond sanctions, the Trump administration plans to leverage the billions of dollars in financing Beirut needs to prop up the failing economy”
One key Hezbollah ally some U.S. officials want to sanction is @Gebran_Bassil

Feltman:

“Gebran Bassil should have been sanctioned years ago. No one has done more to enable Hezbollah’s political over-reach than he has, in giving an Iranian-funded Shia militia Christian cover.”
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