Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has underlined the certainty of the Israeli regime’s defeat in the face of the resistance efforts that are led by Lebanon and other regional nations.
The top diplomat made the remarks after paying homage to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the revered former secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, during a trip to Beirut on Tuesday.
“I am certain that the ultimate victory belongs to the people of Lebanon and the resistance, and that the Zionist regime’s defeat is an inevitable matter,” he said after visiting Nasrallah’s burial place, where he laid a wreath.
“Blood triumphs over the sword,” the top diplomat noted, citing a famous saying by the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.
The former resistance leader was assassinated last September during intense Israeli airstrikes targeting the Lebanese capital.
Prior to his martyrdom, he had led Hezbollah’s determined and successful fightback against the Israeli regime’s occupation of the Lebanese soil, and Tel Aviv’s recurrent acts of deadly aggression targeting the country, throughout successive decades.
The struggle saw Hezbollah force the Israeli army into beating a humiliating retreat during two wars that the regime had imposed on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006.
Nasrallah’s assassination took place as part of the regime’s escalation of its deadly attacks against Lebanon that had initiated in October 2023 in response to Hezbollah’s decisive operations against sensitive Israeli targets. The operations were being conducted in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who had come under a genocidal war by Tel Aviv.
‘Resistance stronger despite Nasrallah’s martyrdom’
Araghchi voiced certitude that Nasrallah’s martyrdom would rather determine the resistance in its anti-Israeli struggle even further, and prompt it to act more strongly than before.
“The resistance is alive since the martyrs live on [by their legacy], since Martyr Hassan Nasrallah is [still] alive [in the eyes of his supporters],” he said.
“I am positive that Martyr Nasrallah’s blood will now contribute even more to the resistance’s advancement.”
