Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on 25 July in a feed to Tehran's Al-Alam satellite channel from Beirut's Al-Manar satellite channel. Both of these Arabic language media giants are funded with Iranian oil money.

My Egyptian friend Hesham and I did a rough translation of his talk here. The talk is a half-hour briefing to his followers and supporters on the current state and causes of the war in Lebanon as he sees it; it is also an optimistic prediction of victory from a man who believes he is completely in the right. I fear and dislike the idea of having people like him running my life, but he seems nonetheless a true revolutionary hero whose outlook is not clouded by liberalistic nuances or doubts. Like the Israelis, he has no compunction about killing bystanders.