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Sayyed Nasrallah congratulates Pezeshkian on win, lauds Iran's role

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Hezbollah Media Relations
6 Jul 2024 21:46

Hezbollah's leader sends a congratulatory message to Masoud Pezeshkian, hoping support for the Resistance continues as it has done in previous administrations.

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Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah chant in support of the Resistance and its leader as Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appears via a video link, in the Southern Suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on February 13, 2024. (AP)

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, congratulated the Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian on his victory in the snap presidential election, on Saturday.

In a congratulatory message sent on behalf of Hezbollah, Sayyed Nasrallah wished the president-elect a successful term in office, hoping that Pezeshkian achieves the aspirations of the "sacrificial and loyal" Iranian people.

He explained that Hezbollah and all Resistance movements in the region, "who have for many years been engaged in open confrontation with Zionist occupation forces" and the project of American hegemony, view the Islamic Republic of Iran as their [axis of] support. And this, according to Sayyed Nasrallah, has been the case since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, under the leadership of Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini, and later Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the successive governments under his guidance.

"We always view the Islamic Republic of Iran as a strong, stable, and permanent supporter for the Resistance [movements] and the downtrodden," Sayyed Nasrallah wrote.

The Lebanese Resistance leader said the Resistance movements would continue to tread on the same path until "achieving the final victory, the focal point of which is the mighty and powerful Iran."

Earlier on Saturday, Pezeshkian was announced as the new president-elect of Iran after receiving 54.76% of 30,530,157 votes. The reformist secured the title after beating principalist candidate Saeed Jalili in the second round of a snap election called for following the martyrdom of President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.

Although Pezeshkian is of a different political camp than that of martyr Raisi, he pledged to "untangle the knots one by one under the supervision of the leader of the Revolution and the Islamic Republic, Sayyed Ali Khamenei."