{"id":224067,"date":"2026-07-26T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224067\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:18:08","slug":"khamenei-praises-hezbollah-calls-for-further-jihad-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224067\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei praises Hezbollah, calls for further jihad against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a> called for continued jihadist attacks against Israel, while praising the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah in a series of statements attributed to him on Sunday.<\/p>\n

In the statements, which were released in response to a Hezbollah<\/a> letter pledging allegiance to Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic, Khamenei allegedly asserted that \u201cthere remains no path forward except jihad and resistance\u201d against the US and Israel.<\/p>\n

He continued to claim that Hezbollah\u2019s steadfast commitment to terrorism<\/a> has \u201cbecome an inspiring message\u201d for those in pursuit of \u201cliberation from global arrogance\u201d and \u201cdivine victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khamenei was also quoted as stating that, in line with policy set by Khamenei\u2019s father and previous supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the defense of Hezbollah is Iran\u2019s \u201cstrategic mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also allegedly asserted that Iran\u2019s primary condition for reaching a peace agreement with the US<\/a> is the halting of all Israeli operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Khamenei also lamented the killing of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israeli strikes in 2024. He described Nasrallah as \u201cHezbollah\u2019s master of martyrs,\u201d crediting him with growing Hezbollah from a \u201csapling of Islamic resistance into a mighty tree.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called for continued jihadist attacks against Israel, while praising the Lebanese terrorist organization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[100,34,37,469,93,2289,545],"class_list":["post-224067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-lebanon","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-terrorism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116988838451016026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}