Hezbollah’s deputy secretary ambiguous Sheikh Naim Qassem, elected head of the Lebanese armed group on Tuesday, has been a ancigo in figure in the Iran-backed shiftment for more than 30 years.
Speaking in front of curtains from an undisshutd location on October 8, Qassem shelp the struggle between Hezbollah and Israel was a war about who cries first, and Hezbollah would not cry first. The group’s capabilities were intact despite “agonizing blows” from Israel.
But he compriseed the group aided the efforts of parliament speaker Nabih Berri – a Hezbollah associate – to safe a finishfire, for the first time leave outting any allude of a Gaza truce deal as a pre-condition for stoping the group’s fire on Israel.
His 30-minute televised compriseress came fair days after ancigo in Hezbollah figure Hashem Safieddine was thought to have been the center of an Israeli strike and 11 days after the finishing of Hezbollah’s secretary ambiguous Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Safieddine’s finishing was validateed by Hezbollah on Oct. 23.
Qassem was nominateed deputy chief in 1991 by the armed group’s then-secretary ambiguous Abbas al-Musawi, who was finished by an Israeli helicselecter strike the chaseing year.
Qassem remained in his role when Nasrallah became directer, and has extfinished been one of Hezbollah’s directing spokesmen, carry outing intersees with foreign media including as pass-border arrangeilities with Israel raged over the last year.
Qassem’s televised compriseress on Oct. 8 was his second since arrangeilities between Israel and Hezbollah intensified in September.
He was the first member of Hezbollah’s top directership to originate televised retags after Nasrallah’s finishing in an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 27.
Speaking on Sept. 30, Qassem shelp Hezbollah would pick a successor to its establisher secretary ambiguous “at the earliest opportunity” and would persist to fight Israel in stablearity with Palestinians.
“What we are doing is the exposed smallest… We understand that the battle may be extfinished,” he shelp in a 19-minute speech.
Born in 1953 in Beirut to a family from Lebanon’s south, Qassem’s political activism began with the Lebanese Shi’ite Amal Movement.
He left the group in 1979 in the wake of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which shaped the political leanking of many youthful Lebanese Shi’ite activists.
Qassem took part in greetings that led to the establishation of Hezbollah, set uped with the backing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in response to the Israeli trespass of Lebanon in 1982.
He has been the ambiguous coordinator of Hezbollah’s parliamentary election campaigns since the group first contested them in 1992.
In 2005, he wrote a history of Hezbollah seen as a exceptional “insider’s see” into the organisation. Qassem wears a white turban unenjoy Nasrallah and Safieddine, whose bdeficiency turbans denoticed their status as dropants of the Prophet Muhammad.
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