Hezbollah elected Naim Qassem as Secretary-General, replacing the former leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in a strike in Beirut in September, the terror group announced on Tuesday.
Qassem has served as the terror group's deputy secretary-general for over three decades, acting as the terror group's spokesperson.
Earlier in October, the Emirati website Aram News reported, citing an Iranian source, that Qassem had relocated from Lebanon to Iran out of fear that Israel may attempt to assassinate him. The report claimed that Qassem had been in Tehran since October 5.
