>He withdrew his opposition to a plan, proposed by clerics loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, to establish a Shiite political party in Lebanon. In t

>He withdrew his opposition to a plan, proposed by clerics loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, to establish a Shiite political party in Lebanon. In the minuscule piece of the article you quoted (as well as the preceding paragraph left unquoted) the OG author states that religious leaders in Iran, not Syria, spearheaded the effort that later became Hezbollah. So where is your gripe, specifically? Or do you feel it is in poor test for people of country [X] to write/discuss country [Y] under any circumstance? I myself grow weary of poorly researched articles about the Levant, the Gulf Countries, Northern Africa, etc as they IMO foster more misunderstanding, but this article is not one of them. I love polisci and historical articles, but i was wondering the relevance of it being posted to HN. Then i got to the section documenting Wissam Eid's analysis of the cell network used to carry out the intel and implementation of the assassination documented herein. Fucking awesome. I only wish this young man had been able to escape the religion regulated shithole that is the Levant and come to North America so he could have played with network analysis and other nerd stuff instead of being smeared across the pavement by monotheist psychos.