Hezbollah, one of Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East, sent its number two, Naim Qassim, to the funerals of President Ibrahim Raisi and other officials.
Hezbollah, Lebanon’s largest military, and the Quds Force, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ external operations arm, have strengthened their cooperation, especially since the Syrian civil war.
As expected, Hezbollah also supported the Tehran regime, which sent militias and fighters to protect Bashar Assad’s power. Iranian militias and Hezbollah members have been fighting on the same front in the Syrian civil war for many years.
With the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, attention was once again focused on Hezbollah. Border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah began the next day, October 7, and have continued uninterrupted to this day.
Hundreds of missiles fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon hit some strategic Israeli targets, causing explosions at bases that housed radar stations and reconnaissance balloons.
Meanwhile, Israel bombed Hezbollah facilities on the border with fighter jets, fired missiles from armed drones, attacked vehicles carrying Hezbollah commanders, and even targeted the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon several times. . Hezbollah’s stronghold, the Bekaa Valley, is 100 kilometers from the Israeli border.
Hezbollah released a photo taken in Lebanon in 2018 while Iranians were mourning Ibrahim Raisi. Photos released show Raci inspecting militias at a Hezbollah base and posing next to a missile.
The Tehran Times announced that the photo in question had been published for the first time.
