Hizbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem sent a personal letter on Tuesday to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, thanking Iran’s leadership for military and economic support to Lebanon and for backing Hizbollah, which he described as the only force restraining “Israeli-American aggression.” The letter was published amid continuing regional tensions and also called on Iran to make a halt to Israeli military operations a core demand in any deal with the United States.
Qassem wrote that Iran had given Hizbollah, “the resistance,” and the Lebanese people “everything, and took nothing from them,” portraying the relationship as one of total loyalty and sacrifice. He praised the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for helping shift the regional balance, and said Iran had provided the means to “liberate our land,” heal social wounds, and support reconstruction.
He said Iran was now “sacrificing blood” and confronting the “Zionist regime” after what he called its strike on Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district. He also argued that if other powers had followed Iran’s path, “the US and Israel would not have dared act this way,” and “the Zionist occupation would not have remained on the land of Palestine and Jerusalem.”
Qassem asked Ghalibaf, who heads Iran’s negotiating team alongside Abbas Araghchi, to pass on his gratitude to senior Iranian figures including Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Revolutionary Guard, the army, elite figures and pro-regime activists, as well as the Iranian public. Separately on Tuesday, Araghchi said one of the key understandings with the US is an end to fighting on all fronts, especially in Lebanon, and claimed the war had already effectively ended on Monday before the accord is set to formally begin on Friday.
