Commenting on the stumbling of the U.S.-Iranian negotiations in Islamabad, an official source told Nidaa Al-Watan that this will not affect the direct negotiation session between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, in Washington. Efforts by the Lebanese presidency and the premiership have succeeded in separating Lebanon’s file from Iran’s, so that their fate is not linked, and Iran will not be allowed to intervene to bring the Lebanese file back under its control.
Accordingly, the same source indicated that Tuesday’s session is still set to take place as scheduled and will focus on the necessity of a ceasefire before talks begin. This is the condition Lebanon has set, without having received an Israeli response so far, pending what Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter will tell Lebanon’s ambassador to Washington, Nada Hamadeh Mouawad, on Tuesday.
