Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed the delegation and praised the leadership of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and all the members of Hezbollah in Lebanon for their victory against Israel during the 2006 summer war.

Sheikh Yazbek thanked the Iranian leadership for its support to Hezbollah and vowed to continue the resistance in Lebanon and said “ the resistance in Lebanon is still very strong “

Lebanese media reported during the summer war that Israel attempted but failed to kidnap Sheikh Yazbeck in 2006 from Boudai, a village in the Bekaa region . Yazbeck is a native of Boudai.

There were several reports of reorganization of Hezbollah in Lebanon. One of the reports revealed that the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has stripped Nasrallah of his military authorities by appointing his deputy Sheikh Naim Kassem as the military commander of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Hezbollah was created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in 1982 and the Iranian government has been funding, training and supporting Hezbollah ever since, . The Lebanese parliament majority accuses Iran of destabilizing Lebanon by using Hezbollah for its proxy wars against Israel and the United States .

Last Friday another Hezbollah delegation visited Syria to discuss the election of a Lebanese president to replace Emile lahoud, whose term ended on November 23. Lebanon has been without a president for one month, because the Hezbollah-led opposition , which is supported by Iran and Syria has been blocking the election by trying to force the majority to accept a basket of demands prior to any elections. The majority called these demands extortion and blackmail

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