Nicholas Blanford, a Beirut-based Hezbollah knowledgeable and senior fellow on the Atlantic Council, additionally mentioned Safieddine has “been touted as a possible successor to Nasrallah for years”.
He has “the precise credentials”, Blanford mentioned – he’s a spiritual determine, from Lebanon’s south, from the place “most of Hezbollah’s management tends to return”, and likewise heads Hezbollah’s highly effective government council.
Hezbollah was created on the initiative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and gained its moniker as “the Resistance” by combating Israeli troops who occupied southern Lebanon till 2000.
The motion was based through the Lebanese Civil Battle after Israel besieged the capital Beirut in 1982.
In July in a speech in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Safieddine alluded to how Hezbollah views its management succession.
“In our resistance … when any chief is martyred, one other takes up the flag and goes on with new, sure, sturdy dedication,” he mentioned.
