From the Assad method to Khamenei’s doctrine, Hezbollah has lost everything

Who has not seen the video of a young Hassan Nasrallah, around the mid-1980s, declaring in a speech his belief in an Islamic state in which Lebanon would have the honor of dissolving itself completely? These images have often been broadcast by Hezbollah’s detractors to demonstrate that, despite its apparent evolution, nothing could fundamentally change about the ''Party of God.'' Several years after this declaration of faith, specifically, in 1992, the young revolutionary, half Iranian mullah, half Che Guevara in appearance, would become secretary-general of the party. Thus began a journey for him and his group that would take them very far from their early, clear-cut aspirations.When Nasrallah rose to the top of the party, Lebanon had barely emerged from civil war. Hezbollah had reached a fruitful understanding with its...