Meanwhile, back at The Australian, foreign editor Greg (Jerusalem Prize) Sheridan, slumbers on: "Iran sponsored Hezbollah as its representative force in Lebanon. Increasingly, Tehran has taken direct control of Hezbollah. Hezbollah undoubtedly commands some genuine popular support in Lebanon, but increasingly it is run as a unit of the Iranian state. That is one of the reasons it has been relatively quiet in the past 12 months. Iran plays these games with a lot of precision." (The dangerous illusion of independent terrorists, 6/12/08)
And during that period of "relative quiet" (in May actually), spurred by Lebanese government plans to dismantle its military communications network, Hezbollah took up arms to thrash Saad Hariri's US-trained gunmen in West Beirut, and went on to take part in a Qatari-mediated agreement which resulted in it obtaining veto power over government decision-making.
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