A little light reading:
A 1994 paper on Hezbollah's relationship with the Iranian government. 41 pages long. I haven't read it yet - hoping it delivers the extremely useful info that the article title implies it offers.

Should I find it disturbing that I've found Andrew Sullivan's blog entries making a lot of sense of late? Andrew Sullivan, of course, is a gay man who's earned the ire of the Left side of politics for being a gay man who promotes conservative ideals. Recently he's started earning the ire of the Right side of politics for, as near as I can tell, being a gay man who promotes conservative ideals. Anyway, here's his current take on the overall Middle East situation.