Nasrallah Hails Raisi's Election Win in Iran
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday congratulated ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi on winning Iran's presidential election, describing him as a "shield" against Israel and other "aggressors."
Raisi, a former judiciary chief, won nearly 62 percent of the vote in Friday's election on turnout of 48.8 percent, after his most prominent rivals were either disqualified or pulled out of the race.
"Your victory has renewed the hopes of the Iranian people and the people of the region who see you as a shield and a strong supporter... for the resistance against aggressors," Nasrallah said in a cable to Raisi.
Hizbullah, long designated a "terrorist" organization by the United States, forms an "axis of resistance" against Israel together with Iran and Syria.
The Lebanese, Iran-backed movement fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006, and its fighters have also battled against rebels trying to oust the regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad, whose government counts Iran as one of its top allies, wished Raisi "success in his new responsibilities... and steering the country in the face of external pressure."
Hizbullah, a powerful force in Lebanese politics, also has close ties with the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas which rules the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said "Iran has always been a main, strong and real supporter of the Palestinian resistance and our national cause" as he congratulated Raisi.
I was wondering when the mudrat was going to come out of his tunnel to congratulate his new master known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran’.
Bless anyone person, entity, organization, brigade, virus or country that inflicts extreme pain and unbearable suffering, death, torture, and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia, its leaders, members, sponsors, supporters or followers wherever they may be.
The day this evil iranian sectarian terrorist is brutally and violently murdered is the day we celebrate our true independence.
I am sure that not in the distant future this man would be asking the Christians to get his permission to pray mark my word. Aoun has given this man the rein and could do as he pleases as long as he lets Basil steal at will and prosper on our dead bodies.