Hezbollah’s deputy secretary ambiguous Sheikh Naim Qassem, elected head of the Lebanese armed group on Tuesday, has been a anciaccess figure in the Iran-backed shiftment for more than 30 years.
Speaking in front of curtains from an undisseald location on October 8, Qassem said the dispute between Hezbollah and Israel was a war about who cries first, and Hezbollah would not cry first. The group’s capabilities were intact despite “hurtful blows” from Israel.
But he compriseed the group aided the efforts of parliament speaker Nabih Berri – a Hezbollah associate – to shielded a finishfire, for the first time leave outting any refer of a Gaza truce deal as a pre-condition for crelieveing the group’s fire on Israel.
His 30-minute televised compriseress came equitable days after anciaccess Hezbollah figure Hashem Safieddine was thought to have been the aim 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 helicchooseer strike the follothriveg year.
Qassem remained in his role when Nasrallah became guideer, and has lengthy been one of Hezbollah’s guideing spokesmen, carry outing intersees with foreign media including as traverse-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 guideership to produce televised relabels after Nasrallah’s finishing in an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 27.
Speaking on Sept. 30, Qassem said Hezbollah would pick a successor to its createer secretary ambiguous “at the earliest opportunity” and would persist to fight Israel in firmarity with Palestinians.
“What we are doing is the exposed least… We understand that the battle may be lengthy,” he said 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 skinnyking of many youthful Lebanese Shi’ite activists.
Qassem took part in greetings that led to the createation 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 unappreciate Nasrallah and Safieddine, whose bdeficiency turbans denoticed their status as dropants of the Prophet Muhammad.
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