Tom Joscelyn’s Weekly Standard cover story is the definitive account of the recently assassinated Imad Mugniyah’s pivotal role in the confederation of Hezbollah, Iran and al Qaeda.

The most intriguing part is the last section, which deals with the likely contribution of Iran to the 9/11 attacks and our government’s stubborn refusal to investigate it — reminiscent, I would note, of our government’s refusal for years to acknowledge Iran’s coordination of the Khobar Towers bombing (now known to have been carried out by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah and, probably, al Qaeda).

But read it all.