(Weekly Standard) Lee Smith - With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tour of Lebanon two months ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively declared that the tiny country of 4.1 million is nothing more than an Iranian victory garden, to be chewed up in the next round of war between Israel and Iran's Lebanese surrogate, Hizbullah. By his recent trip to Tehran, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has shown that if you want to contest the fate of Lebanon, as with so much else in the Middle East these days, the doors to knock on are in Tehran. The Islamic Republic of Iran can only be encouraged when it looks at Lebanon. Its investment in Hizbullah is paying handsome dividends, and the Khomeinist revolution goes from strength to strength.
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