He neither sought to clarify nor decisively separate the Lebanese and Iranian tracks, despite remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said: "We are trying to treat the talks between Lebanon and Israel as a different and separate track from Iran, which wants to mix all the files together." That distinction is, above all, a Lebanese concern. Instead, Trump heightened anxiety by repeatedly expressing, at relatively spaced intervals, his desire to entrust the issue of the party's disarmament to Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa.
