A senior Hezbollah official on the condition of Nasrallah’s appointee

A Lebanese security official told Sky News in Arabic today (Saturday) that The culprit is Safi a-Din the designated heir of Hassan Nasrallah stayed in a bunker that was bombed in the Dahiya district in Beirut by the Air Force on the night between Thursday and Friday. At the same time, a senior Hezbollah official told the French news agency that he had lost contact with him. A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera that they do not know for sure who else was in the same bunker, because then according to him, Israel does not allow the removal of the ruins.

In the meantime, Israeli sources told the channel that the Israeli assessments regarding the killing of Sefi al-Din are still cautious. Lebanese security officials told the Reuters news agency that Adin has been out of touch since the attack, and Al Arabiya reports that the assassination has been confirmed.

According to an unverified report by the military commentator of News 12, Ehud Yaari, together with Safi a-Din stayed there Ismail Kaani commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran. No further reports on this have yet been received. Qaani replaced Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by the US in 2020. Qaani’s fate has not yet been clarified, and unusually he was not present at the sermon of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.

Let’s recall that apart from Safi al-Din’s family closeness to Nasrallah, he is considered very close to the Iranians. He studied in Qom, and in addition went through “training courses” of the Revolutionary Guards, which qualified him for his senior position in Hezbollah. His son, Syed, got married in June 2020 to none other than Qassem Soleimani’s daughter. This marriage connected Sefi ad-Din in close ties to the Iranian “owners of the house”, and especially to the Revolutionary Guards.