U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

Nasrallah blocked any effort to elect a person who was not its ally Suleiman Frangieh. One candidate is the commander of the Lebanese armed forces Gen. Joseph Aoun, who is supported by the U.S. and France. The Lebanese armed forces will be a key player in any post-war settlement in Lebanon. With Nasrallah dead and Hezbollah at its weakest in years, the Biden administration thinks there is now an opportunity to dramatically reduce its influence on the Lebanese political system and elect a new president who is not an ally of the Shia militia, two U.S. officials said (Read more at Axios).