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2025-02-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hundreds of Iraqis, Iranians, including top leaders, head to Beirut for Nasrallah funeral
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[IsraelTimes] Lebanese terror group hoping to put on a show of strength to show it is still relevant in wake of devastating losses it suffered in conflict with Israel
Hundreds of Iraqis and Iranians, including big shots, are heading to Beirut where Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Hezbollah will bury its former leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
, in a mass funeral aimed at showing political strength after the group emerged badly weakened from last year’s war.
Nasrallah was killed on September 27 in an Israeli airstrike as he met commanders in a bunker in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stunning blow in the early phase of an Israeli offensive that has left the Iran-backed group a shadow of its former self.
Revered by Hezbollah supporters, Nasrallah led the Shi’ite Moslem group through decades of conflict with Israel, overseeing its transformation into a military force with regional sway and becoming one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations.
The funeral in Beirut’s southern suburbs will also honor Hashem Safieddine, who led Hezbollah for one week after Nasrallah’s death before he was also killed by Israel, underlining how deeply Israeli intelligence had penetrated the terror group. He will be buried in the south on Monday.
"The funeral is a launchpad for the next phase. A great funeral that draws hundreds of thousands is a way of telling everyone that Hezbollah still exists, that it is still the main Shi’ite actor in Lebanon," said Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Israel killed thousands of Hezbollah fighters and inflicted huge destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah embedded its forces. The impact on Hezbollah was compounded by the ousting of its ally Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
in Syria, severing the supply route to Iran.
Its weakened stature has been reflected in Lebanon’s post-war politics, with the group unable to impose its will in the formation of a new government and language legitimizing its arsenal omitted from the new cabinet’s policy statement.
Sheikh Sadeq al-Nabulsi, a holy man close to Hezbollah, said adversaries in Lebanon and abroad believed the group had been defeated, but the funeral would be a message that this was not the case. It would be a "battle to prove Hezbollah’s existence."
The ceremony will be held at Lebanon’s biggest sports arena, the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, on the outskirts of the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs.
Nasrallah will then be buried at a dedicated site nearby.
Nasrallah’s death was a huge blow to Iran, whose Revolutionary Guards established Hezbollah in 1982. It was also a blow to allied Shi’ite militias across the region, which also held him in high regard.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will attend, an Iranian official said. An Iraqi delegation, including senior Shi’ite politicians and militia commanders, will fly to Beirut for the funeral on a presidential plane, two Iraqi politicians said. Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s will send a senior delegation led by the Grand Mufti, Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported.
Iraqi Airways has added flights to Beirut to cope with extra demand from Iraqis who want to travel to Beirut for the funeral, a spokesperson for the Iraqi transportation ministry said.
Supporters venerate him for opposing Israel and defying the United States. To his foes, he was head of a terrorist organization and a proxy for Iran’s Shi’ite Islamist theocracy in its tussle for influence in the Middle East.
After he was killed, Nasrallah was buried temporarily next to his son, Hadi, who died fighting for Hezbollah in 1997.
His official funeral was scheduled to allow time for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon under the terms of a US-backed ceasefire, which ended last year’s war.
Though Israel has largely withdrawn from the south, its troops continue to hold five hilltop positions in the area.
The conflict spiraled after Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel in support of its Paleostinian ally Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
at the start of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war, on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas onslaught that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
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