Amir Taheri has an excellent piece at Times Online exploring the history and goals of the “Party of God”—Hizballah: God’s army has plans to run the whole Middle East. What are the links between Hezbollah and Iran? In 1982 Iran had almost no influence in Lebanon. The Lebanese Shi’ite bourgeoisie that ...
A must-read from Amir Taheri: The Last Helicopter. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Hassan Abbasi has a dream—a helicopter doing an arabesque in cloudy skies to avoid being shot at from the ground. On board are the last of the “fleeing Americans,” forced out of the Dar al-Islam (The Abode of Islam) ...