Hezbollah has elected a new leader

The Shura Council (the main governing body) of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon has elected Hashim Safi al-Din as the new secretary general of the organization . Safi al-Din is the cousin of the movement's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and the son-in-law of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's Quds Force.

The Shura Council (main governing body) of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon has elected Hashim Safi al-Din as the organization's new secretary general, Al Arabiya and other media sources reported.

Safi al-Din, who served as the head of the executive committee and is the cousin of the former leader of the group, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, and the son-in-law of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's Quds Force, who was killed in a US airstrike.

According to Al Ghad, the similarity between the former and new leaders is striking: they look and sound very similar.

Hashim Safi al-Din was born in 1964 in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, south of Lebanon. He trained with Nasrullah in Najaf and Qom and founded Hezbollah in 1982. In 1994, Safi al-Din became the head of the executive committee. There is information that Nasrullah recommended his cousin as the heir in 2008 in case of his death, writes Al Ghad.

Al-Arabiya writes that Safi al-Din has been involved in the secret affairs of the group for thirty years and entrusted the development of the general strategy to Nasrullah . BBC Arabic clarified that he was involved in overseeing Hezbollah's political, social, cultural and educational activities. In May 2017, the United States and Saudi Arabia added Safi al-Din to the list of terrorists.

It should be noted that the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrullah, was killed on September 28 in an attack by the Israeli Air Force on the military base in Beirut. The leadership of the movement expressed confidence that it will "continue the jihad against the enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine, as well as Lebanon. "