Iran continues to aid Hezbollah....

I feel for the Lebanese....they have to deal directly with the ire of Ian...

Under the cover of an aid project, Iran is consolidating Shia control over southern Lebanon by building a large mountain road that critics believe is a supply route for Hizbollah.

While Iran claims the road is nothing but a reconstruction project after the 2006 war with Israel, some observers believe it is a key component of the militant group's rearmament programme.

Iranian money is also creating two new Shia villages to protect the road at the expense of the country's non-Shia communities, including the Druze and Sunni Muslims.

Together, the road and the villages now threaten to destroy the delicate balance between the various ethnic groups in the aftermath of Lebanon's 15-year civil war.

"The Iranians are playing with fire," said Simon Karam, a lawyer and former ambassador to Washington, who comes from the local Christian town of Jezzine.

"Those of us who remember the civil war had hoped that the rivalry between the different groups was part of our past but it looks very much as if Iran is making it part of our future."