TEHRAN - Hezbollah is not just an organization that was founded in 1982. It is an idea and an ideology built on the foundation of serving the Lebanese nation.

History has proven that the martyrdom of its leaders and commanders has only made the movement stronger and more resilient. 

The party provides education, health and welfare services, as well as security to the people of Lebanon. The duty to protect the Lebanese from Israeli occupation is enshrined in Hezbollah’s doctrine.  

On the battlefield, the Lebanese resistance movement succeeded in forcing the Israelis to leave southern Lebanon in 2000.

In July 2006, when Israel launched a 33-day war on Lebanon, Hezbollah again defeated the Israeli occupation forces as admitted by the committee set up in Tel Aviv to investigate the defeat. 

Israel can start a war against Hezbollah but the Lebanese resistance has proven time and again that it determines the fate of the war and emerges victorious. 

Hezbollah’s security policy has always been focused on countering the Israeli occupation and defending the legitimate rights of the Palestinians. How Palestine shrunk in territory to Israeli settlements is the reason Hezbollah does not trust the West or the international community to come to Lebanon’s assistance. It firmly believes strong resistance is required. 

The resistance movement has made many other achievements. The landmark agreement to secure Lebanon’s natural resources in the Mediterranean is a concrete example.

Hezbollah pressured Israel to accept a maritime deal on offshore energy exploration in October 2022. This allowed the Lebanese state to drill for energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean. This was only achieved after months of military threats by Hezbollah. It helped alleviate the Lebanese economy.

All these achievements have come despite the assassinations of many top Hezbollah leaders and commanders. 

Seyyed Abbas al-Mousavi, who led the Hezbollah movement before Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated with his wife and child in a car in an Israeli airstrike in February 1992. 

Nasrallah took over the post of the movement’s secretary general at the age of 32. He greatly strengthened the resistance movement. 

The spirit of Hezbollah’s most senior commander Imam Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus in February 2008, was the driving force in aborting efforts by Daesh terrorists to expand their scope of terror from Syria to Lebanon in 2016 and 2017.    

Hezbollah also succeeded in forcing Israel to release many Lebanese citizens who had been kidnapped by the occupation regime since the early 1980s. They were released after the 2006 war. 

The Israelis have tried many times to undermine the Lebanese movement by assassinating its leaders. However, the movement has turned into an unquenchable flame that cannot be extinguished by bombs or missiles. 

The movement has seen numerous persons rising to replace Hezbollah leaders and commanders who have been martyred.