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Diplomacy takes center stage as Iran holds off retaliation against Israel

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President Biden dispatched three of his top Mideast advisers, including CIA Director Bill Burns , to the region this week to try to delay Iranian and Hezbollah military retaliation against Israel .

Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to retaliate in response to thein Tehran two weeks ago and the killing of top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut .

U.S. assessments are that Iran will not seek to disrupt ongoing cease-fire negotiations in Doha aimed at ending the Hamas -Israel war.

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne was in Lebanon Thursday meeting government leaders, including those close to Hezbollah .

The timing of the Doha meeting, just four days before the start of the Democratic National Convention , underscores the priority that the Biden-Harris administration is placing on ending the bloodshed and retrieving the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza .