Beirut; November 2026: Today (Sunday – 15th November 2026; early morning IST), Sayyed Ibrahim Amin, Head of the Political Council of Hezbollah has reiterated Iran has proved that there exists a country capable of confronting the US and telling them that it is no longer a superpower, and it is Iran.
Developments in Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen have reshaped “the course of peoples around the world, relations between countries and the ongoing struggle on the international stage. Iran has exposed the limits of the United States military and political power in its confrontation with the US-Israeli axis”.
Turning to US President Donald Trump, the Hezbollah official remarked that “Trump was trying to regain America’s greatness, but suffered a major defeat on this path. For the first time in the history of the US, we witnessed an election conducted around the principle of opposing an attack on Iran versus supporting an attack on Iran”, he noted.
He also highlighted a shift in European positions towards Israel, noting that “for the first time, we witnessed European countries taking a stand against Israel”. Al-Sayyed has further warned that the United States and Israel would ultimately face the consequences of their actions, declaring, “The horrific crimes committed by the US and the Israeli regime in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen will destroy the criminals”.
He maintained that Israel’s wars against Lebanon have failed to achieve their stated objectives, arguing that the attacks have brought neither security nor stability to the regime. On Lebanon’s domestic debate over weapons, the Hezbollah official condemned factions calling for the state to monopolise arms, arguing that their position served Israeli interests.
Addressing Yemen, al-Sayyed praised its support for Palestine, saying, “The great and steadfast Yemeni people have paid a heavy price in confronting the Israeli regime and in expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people”.
He has urged the Saudi officials to reconsider their policy toward Yemen, stressing that accepting the Yemeni people’s demands would bring greater benefits than “showing hostility toward this people and destroying their country”.
The current geo-political scenario – with Donald Trump conceding a thumping defeat in the US mid-term elections, following the same fete at Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu - Sheikh Naim Qassem, the secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance group has outrightly rejected calls to disarm Hezbollah and establish a state monopoly on weapons while Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, urging the Beirut government to stop making commitments that serve Israeli interests.
In a televised speech broadcast from the Lebanese capital on the occasion of Hezbollah Martyrs’ Day, on the 11th of November 2026, Sheikh Naim Qassem called on Lebanese authorities to stop discussions on the government’s plan to establish a monopoly on arms across the country, citing Israel’s continued acts of aggression. “This is disarmament under naked Israeli aggression, as the occupying regime is aggressively seeking to strip Hezbollah of its weapons. Where is the sovereignty that the political authorities claim to be pursuing?”
The Hezbollah chief stated that some Lebanese officials seek to surrender the resistance and the Arab nation to Israel in pursuit of their own interests. “This country belongs to all of us, and we must all protect it. The army’s role is to preserve civil peace and defend Lebanon; yet they want a military that fights its own people, plunges the country into internal strife, and implements Israeli demands for disarmament”, Sheikh Qassem reiterated.
He stressed that the urgent priority for the Lebanese government is to stop the Israeli aggression, force the Israeli military to withdraw from southern Lebanon, ensure the return of displaced people to their towns and villages, and begin reconstruction.
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