Hezbollah chooses Safieddini to replace Nasrallah, says media

BySimon Rousseau Posted on
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The Shiite group Hezbollah selected this Sunday (29) Hashem Safieddini to replace Hassan Nasrallah, killed yesterday (28) in Beirut, Lebanon, in an Israeli bombing.

According to the newspapers Haaretz and Al Arabya, Hezbollah’s new leader is a native of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, a village in southern Lebanon, and his family is known for producing influential clerics and parliamentarians.

Safieddini is Nasrallah’s cousin and has family ties to the late General Qassem Soleimani, one of the most powerful men in Iran and who led the Al Quds Force. He was assassinated in 2020 in a US airstrike in Iraq.

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