U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserted with respect to Lebanon that “to see what Hizbollah, under the direct control of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has done to that country saddens me greatly. And the U.S. is determined to prevent Iran from continuing to undermine sovereignty of the people of Lebanon, the sovereignty of the people of Iraq, the sovereignty, frankly, of the people of Syria who have been decimated by Iranian support for the Assad regime”.