Lebanon could be getting a contentious fuel booster from Iran

Hezbollah appears to be using Lebanon’s worsening fuel shortage to up Iran’s influence on the crisis-hit country: Leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said a tanker would set off "soon” from Iran to bring desperately needed fuel supplies to Lebanon, insisting that the group was not trying to step in and replace the state by purchasing the fuel, Reuters reports. While it remains unclear how the shipment would reach its stated destination, the move, prohibited by US sanctions on Iran's oil industry, could drag Lebanon into the covert naval war between Tehran and Israel.