Pres. reassures resistance leaders of Iran’s consistent support

Iran’s president has reassured senior resistance leaders of the country’s policy of providing the regional resistance axis with consistent support.

Masoud Pezeshkian made the remarks in Tehran on Monday, meeting separately with Ziad Nakhala, secretary-general of the Gaza Strip-based resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad, and Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

“The Islamic Republic’s position of supporting the cause of liberation of [the holy occupied city of] al-Quds, would not change with the transition of governments [in the country],” Pezeshkian told Nakhala.

Pezeshkian, who won Iran’s run-off presidential vote earlier this month, was endorsed as the country’s new chief executive by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday. His swearing-in ceremony is due to be held on Tuesday, with numerous foreign dignitaries in attendance.

After being sworn in, he is expected to provide the make-up of his proposed government to Majlis, the Iranian parliament, which would decide on its approval in due course.

Still addressing Nakhala, Pezeshkian asserted, “We would not abandon our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the face of Zionists’ inhumane crimes.”

The remarks came amid the Israeli regime’s October 7-present war of genocide against Gaza that has so far claimed the lives of at least 39,324 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The Palestinian official, for his part, expressed gratitude towards the Islamic Republic, noting that “Iran’s resonating supportive voice has an important impact towards preserving resistance fighters’ morale and steadfastness.”

The Palestinian people would never forget Iran’s supportive attitude, he concluded.

Meeting with Qassem, Pezeshkian likewise asserted that backing the resistance front constituted one of the Islamic Republic’s “religious duties and principled policies.”

He also considered enhancement of relations with Muslim countries to be among the foreign policy priorities of his pending government.

The Lebanese official, in turn, said that the defeats that the Israeli regime had been dealt at the hands of the regional resistance movements were owed to the Islamic Republic’s acts of support in favor of those groups.

Qassem, meanwhile, expressed certainty that the ardent people of Gaza’s resistance in the face of the invading Israeli military would impose another defeat on the occupying regime.

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