Khamenei mourners gather in southern Beirut as Hezbollah chief vows fight against Israel
LONDON: People gathered on Wednesday night in Beirut’s southern suburbs to mourn Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran in late February.
In a speech broadcast by the group’s Al-Manar TV, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem reaffirmed the Iran-backed group’s commitment to the June 17 Tehran-Washington memorandum of understanding roadmap, but said his group would continue fighting Israeli forces.
“We remain committed to the Iranian-American memorandum of understanding path, and with it, we will remain in the field,” Qassem said.
“We will not submit, and just as we thwarted their plan by preventing them from achieving their goal of ending the resistance, we will remain standing with our people in the field.
