Lebanon in Free Fall, will it end to a tragic “story of horror”?

Lebanon is in free fall and must not become a “horror story, a U.S. senator said during a visit to Beirut on Wednesday, voicing hope that a government would be formed this week to start addressing its destabilising financial meltdown.

Another senator in the U.S. congressional delegation said Iranian fuel being shipped to Lebanon by the heavily armed Shi’ite group Hezbollah would come with strings attached, dismissing it as an attempted “photo-op by the Iranians”. Washington designates Hezbollah as a terrorist group.

The financial crisis marks the biggest threat to Lebanon’s stability since the 1975–90 civil war.