Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group mourned on Monday the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials in a helicopter crash, praising him as a “protector” of anti-Israel groups in the region.
“Hezbollah in Lebanon extends its deepest condolences,” the group said in a statement, adding that they knew Raisi “closely for a long time” and that he was “a strong supporter, a staunch defender of our causes… and a protector of the resistance movements.”
