On Sunday, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah pledged his participation in retaliation for the January 2020 U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander, Soleimani was killed alongside an Iranian proxy leader.
Nasrallah made his threat during Iranian orchestrated mass memorials to Soleimani. The Hezbollah operated Al Manar news website described how Nasrallah “stressed, as [Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei] said, the just retribution of the killers… who ordered and implemented [Soleimani’s killing], although it was the responsibility of the Iranians and Iraqis in the first place, [was also] the responsibility of all free and honorable peoples to be a partner in the implementation of retribution.”
