TEHRAN - As the chairman of Hezbollahs Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine was a really high-ranking member of the organization.
He was a cousin of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of the resistance movement.Safieddines name only came to light after numerous thought that he would potentially be successful Nasrallah, who was assassinated on September 27 in an enormous Israeli air campaign on southern Beirut.Safieddine assumed a prominent function, promoting Hezbollah.
He resolved funeral services and other events that Nasrallah had actually long prevented for security reasons.He was the very first Hezbollah official to speak in public after the attack on southern Israel in October 2023 by Palestinian resistance factions, including Hamas.Like Nasrallah, Safieddine used the black turban representing his status as a sayyed, or descendent of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him).
Coming from a popular Lebanese Shia household, he was born in 1964 in Lebanons primarily Shia south.Safieddine studied at spiritual academies in the Iranian shrine city of Qom before returning to Lebanon in the 1990s to presume leadership obligations in the group.His kid, Rida, is wed to the child of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the famous commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards Quds Force who was assassinated in a United States drone strike near Baghdads global airport in January 2020.
His brother, Abdullah, works as Hezbollahs agent in Tehran.As executive council chief, Safieddine played a role some compared to that of prime minister of a federal government, responsible for an array of Hezbollah organizations associated with health care, education, culture and building and construction, in addition to other activities.He led efforts to rebuild the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburban areas of Beirut after Israels 2006 war on the group, when swathes of the location were flattened by Israeli air campaign.
In a 2012 speech, Safieddine stated the post-war reconstruction had actually totaled up to a new triumph over Israel.In 2017, in reaction to United States pressure on Hezbollah, he said, This mentally impeded, insane US administration headed by Trump will not have the ability to hurt the resistance.