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TEHRAN, May 26 (MNA) – A photo of Obama depicts him sitting and listening to the live broadcast of Hezbollah Secretary General speech. A picture depicted president Barack Obama listening to live broadcast of remarks made by Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah from TV. Obama was not the only notable viewers of Nasrallah’s speech however, as Israeli state TV reports, more than 350m viewers had been viewing the speech by Hezbollah’s General Secretary Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah was speaking on the occasion of the anniversary of Israeli forces withdrawal from south of Lebanon in 2000, and had addressed critical issues about Syria,...

Nahdiya Safieddine, mother of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, passed away on Saturday, Lebanese media reported. One of the reports said that Nahdiya had been ill in recent months. The terror group issued an official announcement of Nahdiya's death. According to Hezbollah's statement, "The honorable Mrs. Hajja Umm Hassan, mother of His Eminence the secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, passed away to the mercy of God Almighty." It is not clear whether Nasrallah will attend the funeral, the details of which are not yet known.

The Hezbollah chief also stated in his address that they "launched drones from both south of Litani river, and north of Litani river," a direct violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that his group would assess the impact of its rocket and drone attack on Israeli military targets earlier in the day before determining whether it would carry out further attacks to avenge a slain commander. The leader of the Iran-backed armed group said in a televised address that the group had been able to carry out its attack "as planned,"...

‘$500m on table’ if Beirut complies The United States is reportedly making a fresh attempt to strike a behind-the-scenes deal to neutralize Hizbullah, offering the government half a billion dollars if the resistance is dismantled and Syria pulls its troops out of Lebanon. The offer is reportedly being conveyed by Darryl Issa, a Republican congressman for California, and Democrat Robert Wexler during a visit to Beirut Friday, the daily As-Safir said Thursday. The two congressmen will also travel to Damascus to discuss the offer with Syrian officials, the paper said. The daily quoted sources in the US Congress as saying...

By opening up to Western audiences and calling for a reconsideration of Islamic rhetoric and principles, Hizbullah is attempting to reintroduce itself as a representative of a moderate Islam of the future, distant from the atavism and political agendas of other fundamentalist groups. In a recent speech he gave in the Bekaa last week, the party’s secretary-general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said that it was unacceptable to make “generalizations and categorizations that would involve millions of Europeans who preceded the Islamic world in rejecting a war waged against it.” He said that opening up to millions in Europe and America should...