Whether the Hezbollah terror chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, is feeling “distressed” at the moment is anybody’s guess, but threats to Cyprus he made in a speech on Wednesday marked a clear escalation in regional tensions. 

In his speech, Mr. Nasrallah said that in the case of wider war with Israel, “Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon would mean that the Cypriot government is part of the war, and the resistance will deal with it as part of the war.”