Safieddine Spent His Whole Life Pursuing Liberation of Al-Quds: Iran
In a statement published on its official website on Wednesday, the ministry hailed Safieddine for spending his whole life for liberation of the holy city of al-Quds.
It also expressed strong condemnation following the martyrdom of the senior Hezbollah leader as a result of the Israeli regime's aggression against Lebanon.
The ministry condoled with the martyrs’ survivors, the regional peoples and resistance groups, the world’s Muslim nations, and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
The statement denounced the deadly aggression as “an unforgiveable crime,” while also lambasting “the direct complicity of the US government and other governments supporting the occupying regime in this crime.”
It, however, asserted that “without a doubt, the martyrdom of the leaders of the resistance will not weaken an iota the determination, faith, and will of their leaders, the zealous fighters of the resistance front, and the free Muslim nations of the region to fight against the occupation, oppression, and aggression of the Zionist regime.”
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The struggle, the ministry added, would last “until the end of the sinister phenomenon of the Zionist occupation and the realization of the rights of the Palestinian people and the region's nations, especially the fundamental right to self-determination.”
It hailed Safieddine as one of Hezbollah’s leaders and founders, and a close and loyal companion to the movement’s Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, who was martyred during intense Israeli attacks against the Lebanese capital Beirut in late September.
Safieddine “spent his whole honorable life pursuing the freedom of holy al-Quds and the defense of Lebanon's honor and territorial integrity against the aggression and crimes of the Zionist occupation regime, and he was finally martyred on this holy path,” the statement noted.
Hezbollah confirmed the resistance official’s martyrdom in a statement earlier in the day, saying he had ascended to martyrdom in "a brutal and aggressive Zionist airstrike."
Safieddine was widely expected to be formally elected as Hezbollah’s next secretary general after Nasrallah.
The Israeli regime has escalated its deadly attacks against Lebanon since last October after it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
At least 2,574 Lebanese people have been killed as a result of the aggression.
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Hezbollah has been responding to the atrocities by launching hundreds of retaliatory strikes against sensitive targets across the occupied Palestinian territories both in defense of Lebanon and support of war-hit Gazans.
The movement has vowed to keep up its retaliation until the regime ceases the aggression and genocide.
Confirming Safieddine’s martyrdom, the group likewise pledged “to our great martyr and his fellow martyrs to continue the path of Resistance and jihad until the goals of freedom and victory are achieved.”
Source: Press TV
