In this photo taken Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Lebanese men sit under a poster showing Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, and slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, and the al-Aqsa mosque,with the words in Arabic:" the good news of the absolute victory," in the southern village of Maaroub, near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon. Arab governments are starting to see the hands of Lebanon's Hezbollah all over the place in the Middle East, a sign of their alarm over the power of the Shiite militant group's ally Iran. AP Photo logo AP Photo 7 months ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Lebanese men sit under a poster showing Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, and slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, and the al-Aqsa mosque,with the words in Arabic:" the good news of the absolute victory," in the southern village of Maaroub, near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon. Arab governments are starting to see the hands of Lebanon's Hezbollah all over the place in the Middle East, a sign of their alarm over the power of the Shiite militant group's ally Iran.

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  1. Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivers a televised speech during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut on September 18, 2009. Quds Day, held each year on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is the brainchild of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a display of solidarity with the Palestinians.
  2. A woman holds at portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university, saying the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse.
  3. Two Indonesian UN peacekeepers stand next to a huge portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the border with Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on September 12, 2009. UN peacekeepers were monitoring the Lebanese border with Israel on September 12, a day after rockets launched from south Lebanon slammed into Galilee, but the situation was 'calm,' a spokeswoman said.
  4. In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, an Israeli flag is seen in the Israeli town of Metulla, as on the other side of the border a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, top, and top commander Imad Mughniyeh, is seen displayed in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time.
  5. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (on screen) addresses supporters during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut's suburbs September 18, 2009. Al-Quds Day, held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, is observed as a show of support for the Palestinian people.
  6. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah broadcasting on a giant screen from a secret location, speaks to thousands of supporters during a ceremony marking "Jerusalem Day" that was called for by the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the group's stronghold south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Nasrallah said no Arab state has the right to recognize Israel adding that his group will never recognize the Jewish state.
  7. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  8. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  9. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  10. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen speaking via a video link as journalists raise their hands to ask questions of him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  11. A journalist raises her hand to ask a question as Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks (on screen) during a news conference announcing the party's new political strategy in Beirut November 30, 2009. Lebanon's Hezbollah Shi'ite movement announced a new political strategy on Monday that tones down Islamic rhetoric but maintains a tough line against Israel and the United States.
  12. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a giant screen during a news conference announcing party's new political strategy in Beirut November 30, 2009. Lebanon's Hezbollah Shi'ite movement announced a new political strategy on Monday that tones down Islamic rhetoric but maintains a tough line against Israel and the United States.
  13. A young Hezbollah supporter holds two posters showing the slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, right, and in the left for the slain Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas al-Musawi, during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyrs Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
  14. Hezbollah members, parade during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyrs Day, in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. At left is a banner with the image of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh and at right a banner with the image of slain Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas al-Musawi.
  15. In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, an Israeli flag is seen in the Israeli town of Metulla, as on the other side of the border a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, top, and top commander Imad Mughniyeh, is seen displayed in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time.

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