Hezbollah mourns 'great brother' Raisi

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#Ebrahim Raisi

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The Lebanese armed group issued a statement offering its "deepest condolences" to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian people.

"We have known His Eminence the martyr president closely for a long time, so he was a great brother to us, a strong support, and a steadfast defender of our causes and the causes of the nation, foremost among them being Jerusalem and Palestine, and a guardian of the resistance movements and their fighters in all the positions of responsibility he held," the statement said.