Lebanon is essentially a puppet state of Iran though.
I think Lebanon has been showing some signs of independence recently. Maybe the Iranians wanted to take them down a notch.
They were very proud of their rebuilt downtown, which of course is a ruin now. In one photo, I saw the interior of a new shopping mall, where young women in modern clothes were bleeding and sobbing...or crushed under display cases or lying dead in the aisle. Very, very sad.