{"id":3978,"date":"2024-10-30T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/qassem-to-deliver-1st-speech-as-new-hezbollah-chief\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:02:29","slug":"qassem-to-deliver-1st-speech-as-new-hezbollah-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/qassem-to-deliver-1st-speech-as-new-hezbollah-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Qassem to deliver 1st speech as new Hezbollah chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/10\/30\/4\/5227448.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>On Tuesday, Hezbollah&#8217;s Shura Council, the group&#8217;s central decision-making body, appointed Sheikh Qassem as the group\u2019s secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old cleric is a veteran figure in Hezbollah, having served as deputy secretary general of the Lebanese resistance group since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed deputy secretary general under Hezbollah\u2019s late secretary general, Abbas al-Musawi, who was killed by an Israeli helicopter attack in 1992, and remained in the role when Nasrallah became leader.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Qassem has long been one of the leading spokesmen for Hezbollah, conducting many interviews with foreign media.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223795\/Qassem-to-deliver-1st-speech-as-new-Hezbollah-chief\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Hezbollah&#8217;s Shura Council, the group&#8217;s central decision-making body, appointed Sheikh Qassem as the group\u2019s secretary-general. The 60-year-old cleric is a veteran figure in Hezbollah, having served as deputy secretary general of the Lebanese resistance group since 1991. He was appointed deputy secretary general under Hezbollah\u2019s late secretary general, Abbas al-Musawi, who was killed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}