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Hashim Safi Al Din | |
|---|---|
هاشم صفي الدين | |
_(cropped).jpg) Safieddine in 2016 | |
| Secretary-General of Hezbollah | |
| Assumed office 29 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Hassan Nasrallah |
| Head of Hezbollah's Executive Council | |
| Assumed office July 2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Deir Qanoun En Nahr, Lebanon |
| Political party | Hezbollah |
Hashim Safi Al Din (Arabic: هاشم صفي الدين, romanized: Hashem Safieddine; born 1964) is a Lebanese Shia cleric, senior Hezbollah official that currently serves as its Secretary-General.[1] He is the maternal cousin of the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.[2] The head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, he was declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States[3][4] and a terrorist by Saudi Arabia.[5] He was generally considered the "number two" in Hezbollah before Nasrallah's assassination in 2024.[6]
Al Din, who served as head of the Jihad Council and the Executive Council of the Hezbollah and retains strong relations with Iran, where he received his religious training and whose leadership promotes him as Nasrallah's successor.
- ^ السياسة (29 September 2024). "Hezbollah Shura Council chooses Hashem Safieddine as Secretary-General". السياسة (in Arabic). Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ "Lebanon: Hezbollah's Rising Star". Stratfor. 17 November 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ David A. Daoud (4 June 2017). "State Department Blacklists Hashem Saffiedine". Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017.
- ^ "State Department Terrorist Designations of Hashem Safieddine and Muhammad al-Isawi". United States Department of State. 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Tal Beeri (8 June 2022). "Hashem Safi al-Din – Head of Hezbollah's Executive Council (and Hassan Nasrallah's Designated Successor?)". Alma Research and Education Center. Retrieved 15 January 2023.