Pro-Iran militias gather for Hezbollah's Beirut funeral in Nasrallah

Pro-Iranian groups in the Middle East gathered in Beirut On February 23 to bury the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The assembly looked like something from the stage in The Godfather, where the “five families” chiefs gathered.

Not only did the leaders of the Pro-Iranian militia appear in Iraq, but also Iranian officials and there have been remotely registered speeches by the current HEZBOLLAH leader and the current HEZBOLLAH leader and IRAN Supreme leader.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, sent a message for the funeral. “The great mujahid and the leader of the resistance in the region, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (or God raise his status), is now in a position that is the peak of honor. His pure body will be rested in the land of the jihad for the sake of God, but His spirit and path will shine more gloriously every day, God willing, illuminating the way for those who follow him, ”said the Iranian leader.

A delegation of the Iranian government also came to the funeral and met with the Lebanese president. “The delegation led by the President of the Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and the Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, settled on Sunday to exchange views on regional developments,” said Iran’s state press.

The delegation included “Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the National Security and Foreign Security Committee of the Iranian Parliament, Abolfazl Amouei, the special assistant of the President of the Parliament for International Affairs and Parliamentary Seyed Mahmoud Nabavian were among those who met with the Lebanese president.” Many of these Iranian officials and also Pro-Iranian groups have started for the funeral.

A person with the Hezbollah pavilion dressed in his shoulders during the day of a public funeral ceremony for late leaders Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Airstrikes Israel, in Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Beirut February 23, February 23, 2025 (Credit: Reuters/Mohammed Yassin)

The Iranian Foreign Minister stated in a statement “that Nasrallah was a strategic thinker who transformed Hezbollah from a mere military group into a political and ideological entity.” Hezbollah members and supporters also gathered in Dahieh, in Beirut, where Nasrallah was killed. The place of his death, a huge crater, has become a kind of pilgrimage.

The members of the powerful Iraq group of pro-Iranian militiamen called Hashd Al-Shaabi also arrived in Beirut. They flew from the Baghdad International Airport through the VIP section.

They included Falih Al-Fayyadh, the head of the popular mobilization forces and his head of Personal Abu Fadak. Abu Fadak is also chief Kataib Hezbollah.

Katab Hezbollah is a key pro-Iranian militia in Iraq, with close ties. The members of other Iraqi militias also flew, including men in ASAIB AHL AL-HAQ and Harakat Hezbollah Anjaba.

Qais al-Khazali, the Secretary General of ASA’IB Ahl al-Haq, said that “Iraqi resistance will carry on the mission of the late leader Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who has dedicated his life to the oppressed,” according to Iran IRNA.

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He named Nasrallah a “great man who spent his whole life on the way of Jihad and the defense of the oppressed,” according to the Al-Alad news site. The same report, which was also launched by Irna, said that 200,000 Iraqis left for the funeral.

A Houthi delegation participated in the funeral

A Houthi delegation from Yemen also came to the funeral, and the events were organized by Pro-Iran Houthis in Yemen. There were delegates from Turkey and other countries at the event.

The speeches and statements at the event have all indicated that Iran’s axis of the different groups in the region believe that “resistance” is not defeated.

They swear to continue to face Israel in the future. Israel has another message to them.

The air forces in Israel Overflew Beirut during the events and also hit a leban site. IDF said that “IDF has hit the military sites containing rocket and weapons launchers where Hezbollah’s activity was identified in the Baalbek area and in several additional areas of the southern Lebanon.”

It was one of the two incidents that IDF mentioned on February 23. In addition, on February 22, IDF said that “he made a strike on the border crossings on the border with Syria-Leban, through which the Terrorist organization Hezbollah tried to smuggle weapons in Lebanon.”

The funeral from Beirut is important for Hezbollah and other Pro-Iranian groups. They need a force show to show that Israel has not lost them. Meetings with the new president of Lebanon were designed to present this. However, IDF flyover shows that things are not as they were a year ago.