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"This is our war," wrote Tehran's conservative Kayhan last week in reference to the ongoing battle between Hizbullah and Israel in Lebanon. Such proclamations, emanating from Iran's most ideological daily, should have come as no surprise, considering the Shiite links between the Lebanese party and the Islamic Republic.

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