Krystal Ball

And so they are doing everything they can.

to blow up any even shred of a possibility of ending the war.

And so not only are they continuing with their illegal invasion of Lebanon, which apparently doesn't have a right to exist, unlike Israel, which we're told about all the time.

But anyway, they're continuing with that invasion, but they also escalated it dramatically.

And the level of death is comparable to some of the worst days that we saw in Gaza, just mass slaughtering.

And you can see that in the images that Sarah put up earlier.

They warned Christians against hiding Shia Muslims.

It's like, I mean, look, sorry, the parallels with the Nazi regime could not be more undeniable.

They already have completely destroyed a number of Lebanese villages, just wiped them off the map.

Like that is what they're up to here.

And so, yeah, you can see from the Iranian perspective, first of all, you've got just the horror of allowing that to continue.

Second of all, Hezbollah is an important part of how they do project regional power.

And Hezbollah has proven a lot of the analysis wrong.

I mean, they were –

really seem to have been effectively destroyed and dramatically weakened by the beeper attack from Israel.

And obviously their top leadership had been assassinated, etc.

They've proven to be much more resilient and much stronger than was expected.

They've operated very effectively in coordination with Iran.

So Iran is not going to be excited about seeing that capability and that force projection given up.

So yeah, you can see why Iran is drawing a hard line in the sand on this and has been clear from the very first time we learned anything about what their requirements were to end the war, Lebanon was included in that.