Author Topic: Who is Hashem Safieddine, rumored to be the next Hezbollah chief? (Read 652 times)

240B · « **on:** October 04, 2024, 08:27:21 pm »

Who is Hashem Safieddine, rumored to be the next Hezbollah chief?

CNN
By Nadeen Ebrahim
Fri October 4, 2024

The fate of a possible successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is unclear following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut.

An Israeli official told CNN that Hashem Safieddine was the target of the strike, but it is unclear if he was killed.

Safieddine is a maternal cousin of Nasrallah – the two studied in Iran together in the early 1980s. Just like Nasrallah, Safieddine is a staunch critic of Israel and the West, with deep alliances with the Iranian leadership.

Safieddine served as head of Hezbollah’s executive council and, until his predecessor’s death, was seen as one of the most likely heirs to the organization’s highest-ranking seat. The group has yet to name a successor to Nasrallah.

The executive council is one of five bodies that make up the Shura Council, which is the organization’s decision-making body. The executive council oversees political matters, as opposed to the Jihad Council which is the group’s military body, which Safieddine is a member of.

Safieddine has previously spoken of the “strong relationship” between Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and especially Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in US airstrike at Baghdad airport in 2020. Safieddine’s son is married to Soleimani’s daughter.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/04/middleeast/hashem-safieddine-hezbollah-profile-intl/index.html

240B · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2024, 08:29:18 pm »

Unclear if he is dead. But if he was killed, he will have been the leader of Hezbollah for less than one week.

GtHawk · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2024, 09:00:10 pm »

How long till they stop announcing the new leader for Israel to take out? Maybe they will try naming their pimp(local goat herder) as their new leader to try and throw the Israelis off.