Tehran – As chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, Sayed Hashem Safieddine was a very high ranked member of the organization. He was the cousin of Said Hassan Nasrara, the Secretary-General of the Resistance Movement.
Safieddine’s name only became clear after many believed that he would replace Nasrara, who was assassinated in a massive Israeli air attack in southern Beirut on September 27th.
Safieddine took on the prominent role speaking for Hezbollah. He tackled funerals and other events that Nasrala had long avoided for security reasons.
He was the first Hezbollah official to speak publicly after the attack on southern Israel by Palestinian resistance facts, including Hamas, in October 2023.
Like Nasrara, Safidi Dean wore a black turban, indicating his status as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (he has peace).
Born in a prominent Lebanese Shia family, he was born in 1964 in the southern Shia region of Lebanon.
Safieddine studied at QOM Religious Seminary at Iranian Shrine before returning to Lebanon in the 1990s, before taking on the responsibility for the group’s leadership.
His son, Leda, married the daughter of Lt. Gen. Kasem Soleimani, the legendary commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard QUDS force, who was assassinated in January 2020 on a US drone strike near Baghdad’s international airport. I’m doing it.
His brother, Abdullah, is the representative of Hezbollah, Tehran.
As Chief of the Executive Council, Safieddine served as the Prime Minister of the Government, responsible for the arrangement and other activities of Hezbollah institutions involved in healthcare, education, culture and construction.
He led an effort to rebuild the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirat after the Israeli war in the group in 2006, when Israeli herds were flattened by the Israeli Air Force. In a 2012 speech, Safieddine said the postwar reconstruction amounted to a “new victory” over Israel.
In response to US pressure on Hezbollah in 2017, he said, “This mentally hampered, Trump-led crazy US administration will not harm resistance.”