India, May 25 -- US has sounded a stark alarm, with high-level officials warning that the Iran-backed proxy group Hezbollah's recent political manoeuvres are threatening to plunge the neighbouring Lebanon into a new era of instability and destruction.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a statement, launched a pointed critique against Hezbollah, accusing the organisation of actively working to undermine Lebanon's fragile political framework. In the formal statement released this weekend, Rubio characterised the group's latest actions as a "reckless call" aimed at destabilising the country's democratically elected government.

According to the Secretary of State, these moves are not merely political posturing but represent a deliberate ...