Iranian Supreme Leader Calls on Muslim World to Help Hezbollah Fight Israel

Published on September 28, 2024

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim world to support Hezbollah—a U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group—on Sept. 28, as news emerged that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike. “The Lebanese have not forgotten that there was a time when the soldiers of the occupying regime were advancing toward Beirut, and Hezbollah stopped them, and made Lebanon proud,” Khamenei said in a Saturday statement. The Iranian leader’s remarks appeared to allude to an Israeli invasion of Lebanon that began in 1982 and persisted through the ’80s and ’90s. Hezbollah formed in reaction and has since established itself as a predominantly Shia Muslim political faction within the Lebanese government, while operating its military wing to fight Israel....