Leader: Killing of Hezbollah commanders not to crush Lebanese group
The assassination of Hezbollah commanders will not bring the group to its knees, Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday, after Israel hit senior figures in the resistance movement during days of devastating air strikes across Lebanon.
“Some of the effective and valuable forces of Hezbollah were martyred, which undoubtedly caused damage to Hezbollah, but this was not the sort of damage that could bring the group to its knees,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The organizational strength and human resources of Hezbollah is very strong, he added, and will not be critically hit by the killing of a senior commander, even if that is clearly a loss.
«Therefore, they have won until today, and by God›s grace, with God›s power, the final victory in this battle will belong to the resistance front and the Hezbollah front,» the Leader noted.
Israel›s new offensive against Hezbollah has killed 569 people since Monday according to Lebanon›s health minister. The deadliest assault on Lebanon in nearly two decades follows nearly a year of war between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in Gaza.
Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza nearly a year ago, Hezbollah has been targeting Israel’s positions in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Ayatollah Khamenei said Hezbollah and other resistance forces are so far the winners of the war, one reason of which is Israel’s massacre of women and children in Palestine and Lebanon.
“If the evil Zionist regime had been able to defeat the fighting forces, whether in Gaza, the West Bank, or in Lebanon, it would not have needed to show its face to the world in such a dark and ugly way through committing crimes against homes, schools, hospitals, children, and women,” the Leader said.
“Since the regime has not been able to win over the resistance force, it is forced to pretend to win by hitting women, children, defenseless people and cars on the road, schools and hospitals. So, it has failed so far.”
In this war against Lebanon and Palestine, the Leader said, «The infidel and evil enemy has the most equipment and the US is behind him.”
“The Americans say they are not involved and have no information, they say the opposite. They both have information and are involved and they need the victory of the Zionist regime,” he said.
“For the upcoming election, the current American government needs to show that it has supported the Zionist regime and had it win the war. Of course, they also need the votes of American Muslims, so they pretend that they are not involved.”
Ayatollah Khamenei said the Israeli enemy has money, weapons, facilities, and global propaganda apparatus, while on the opposing side, «the believers and the fighters in the way of Allah do not even have a tenth of those facilities.”
“Nevertheless, the one who wins is the side of the fighters in the way of Allah. The Palestinian resistance is victorious. Hezbollah is victorious.”