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Nasrallah turned resistance into ‘deterrence doctrine’: Iran’s Parliament speaker

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf

Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late chief of Hezbollah, transformed Lebanon’s resistance from an “irregular movement and guerrilla force into a deterrence doctrine,” says Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

He made the remark in a Monday message on the occasion of the second anniversary of the assassination of Nasrallah by the Israeli regime.

Iran’s Parliament speaker said that beyond a political and religious leader, Nasrallah was a “strategist and field commander” who had a sharp understanding of the region’s geopolitics and brought Hezbollah to a point that fundamentally changed Israel’s security equations.

Nasrallah, he said, was among the commanders who turned the battlefield into a means of ensuring sustainable security.

The late Hezbollah chief did not view Lebanon, Iran, Palestine and other resistance fronts as separate entities but as components of a cause against occupation and aggression, Qalibaf said.

He said the enemy believed that eliminating the Hezbollah commander would bring the resistance to a halt but had failed to realize that Nasrallah had laid the foundation of a structure that does not rely on a single individual but “is a cohesive and stable structure that even today maintains its deterrence with strength.”

Qalibaf also paid tribute to Nasrallah and other martyrs of the resistance front, notably the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and wished dignity, strength and pride for the Lebanese people, resistance fighters and all free and steadfast nations.

Nasrallah was martyred on September 27, 2024, in a large Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah has a strong presence. The strike targeted several residential buildings in the Haret Hreik area using bunker-buster munitions. Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death the following day.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said all countries must fulfill their moral and international legal duty to prosecute and punish those responsible for the assassination of the late Hezbollah leader.


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