Despite his relatively moderate rhetoric by Iranian standards, newly elected President Massoud Pezeshkian wants to maintain his country’s anti-Israel course.
In a letter to Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, he said regarding Israel, according to the Isna news agency: “Iran’s support for the resistance front against the illegitimate Zionist regime will continue with vigor.”
Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”
Iran is Hezbollah’s main backer in Lebanon. The Shiite militia fights Israel politically and violently. It is one of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” formed by anti-Western and anti-Israel forces in the Arab world in response to the “Axis of Evil” postulated by former US President George W. Bush. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush described the countries that supported terrorist groups and were reportedly seeking weapons of mass destruction.
How much influence Pezeshkian, who is expected to be sworn in in early August, will have on foreign policy will depend largely on religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful man in the state.
Source: Krone
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