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Emmanuel Macron used his interview on France 2 to clarify the French announcements after the agreement between Washington and Tehran. The President refused to say that the war was over, but he supported the opening of a dialogue phase. He calls for strict verification of Iran, calls Netanyahu for responsibility, refuses Israeli security based on the conquest of neighbouring territory and places Lebanon at the heart of implementation.

Emmanuel Macron calls Benjamin Netanyahu for responsibility and rationality on Lebanon. France recognizes Israel's security, but refuses to allow it to go through the occupation of a neighbouring territory. Paris wants a robust ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, the Lebanese army in the South and Lebanese sovereignty.

Composer, arranger, virtuoso pianist, singer and television host, Ghassan Yamamine has been one of the most popular musical personalities in the Arab world for more than fifteen years thanks to his weekly "Musical" broadcast since 2012 on MTV Lebanon. But behind the TV man is above all a passionate musician, [...]

JD Vance confirmed on 18 June that the 60-day period provided for by the Washington-Theran agreement is now beginning. The US Vice-President defended the text against Israeli critics, finding panic in Jerusalem excessive. He recalled that the benefits granted to Iran will depend on behavioural changes and that Israel's security cannot be achieved only by force.

Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the conflict is not over and that the Israeli army must maintain a security zone in southern Lebanon as long as Israel's needs require. This declaration puts the Prime Minister in a state of default with the Washington-Téhéran agreement, which affirms Lebanese territorial integrity. It also reinforces Hezbollah's argument, which refuses any debate on its weapons before the Israeli withdrawal.

Joseph Aoun chaired a meeting in Baabda on the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations scheduled for June 23, 24 and 25. Along with the army commander Rodolphe Haykal, Simon Karam and the military negotiating team, the President set the Lebanese priorities: final ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, deployment of the army at the borders, return of prisoners and start of reconstruction.

The agreement between Washington and Tehran reversed the Israeli story. Israel retains considerable military power in Lebanon, but it loses part of the diplomatic control of the exit from war. Iran returns as a global interlocutor, Lebanon gets an argument about its territorial integrity and Donald Trump can impose its logic of de-escalation. For Netanyahu, maintaining the army in southern Lebanon becomes a political, military and strategic trap.

Nawaf Salam's visit to Paris puts the Lebanese army back at the centre of the state's return to the South. The Prime Minister wants to turn sovereignty into a concrete capacity: to accompany the Israeli withdrawal, to coordinate with UNIFIL, to secure the villages and to reassure the displaced. France can provide a diplomatic and military relay, but the real test will be played on the ground, in the ability of the army to occupy the space left by the war.

Naim Kassem fixed the Hezbollah line in the sequence opened by the regional agreement between Washington and Tehran. The party's secretary-general refuses any disarmament-related proposals as long as the Israeli army remains present in southern Lebanon. He accepted the idea of a national dialogue, but only after the Israeli withdrawal, the cessation of attacks, the return of the displaced and the reconstruction. This position strengthens the party in the short term, but also risks prolonging the Lebanese political deadlock.

Returning to South Lebanon does not yet mean returning to normal life. After the announcement of the de-escalation, displaced families return to see the damage in their villages, recover property and assess the possibility of staying. But the houses destroyed, the lack of water and electricity, the schools affected, the dangerous roads and the persistent strikes show that the crisis continues. Reconstruction must be civil, social and security.

The publication by the Israeli army of a map designating a "security zone" in southern Lebanon occurs at the most sensitive moment in the diplomatic sequence opened by the Islamabad agreement. By displaying a military presence of up to ten kilometres within Lebanese territory, Israel seeks to impose a security fact, while the Washington-Theran text mentions the cessation of operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, and the guarantee of Lebanese sovereignty.

The Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon has become the central criterion of the regional agreement between Washington and Tehran. A ceasefire will not suffice if Israel retains positions, a security zone or freedom of military action. For Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam, Lebanese sovereignty begins with the liberation of the territory and the deployment of the army. For Hezbollah, withdrawal must precede any debate on weapons.

Syria refuses to intervene in Lebanon against Hezbollah, despite Trump's calls, and leaves Israel trapped in the Lebanese front.

The Lebanese press on June 18 puts Lebanon in front of the American-Iranian agreement test. Between sovereignty displayed, pressure on Israel, the role of Hezbollah and the demands of the Group of Seven, Beirut seeks to impose the State as the only interlocutor in a regional negotiation that still exceeds it.