Iranian Supreme Leader Calls on Muslim World to Help Hezbollah Fight Israel

Iran has supported Hezbollah throughout four decades of sporadic fighting with Israel.

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 5, 2020. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim world to support Hezbollah—a U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group—on Sept. 28, as news emerged that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

“The Lebanese have not forgotten that there was a time when the soldiers of the occupying regime were advancing toward Beirut, and Hezbollah stopped them, and made Lebanon proud,” Khamenei said in a Sept. 28 statement.