- Title: Iran's Pezeshkian meets Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad leaders before inauguration
- Date: 30th July 2024
- Summary: TEHRAN, IRAN (JULY 30, 2024) (POOL VIA WANA - No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International) (MUTE) PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD CHIEF, ZIAD AL-NAKHALA, SHAKING HANDS WITH IRANIAN PRESIDENT MASOUD PEZESHKIAN AL-NAKHALA AND PEZESHKIAN SEATED AL-NAKHALA SPEAKING PEZESHKIAN SPEAKING VARIOUS OF DELEGATES DURING MEETING MEETING ONGOING HEZBOLLAH'
- Embargoed: 13th August 2024 09:51
- Keywords: HAMAS HEZBOLLAH IRAN ISLAMIC JIHAD ISRAEL PALESTINE
- Location: TEHRAN, IRAN
- City: TEHRAN, IRAN
- Country: Iran
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Middle East,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001290530072024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian met with leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Lebanon's Hezbollah in Tehran before his inauguration ceremony on Tuesday (July 30).
Pezeshkian sat down with Islamic Jihad chief, Ziad al-Nakhala, after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Pezeshkian as the country's president on Sunday (July 28).
The president-elect also greeted Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, before meeting with him.
Pezeshkian, a relative moderate who will be sworn in on Tuesday, is taking office at a time of escalating Middle East tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Iran warned Israel on Sunday against what it called any new adventure in Lebanon, after Israeli authorities blamed Hezbollah for a rocket attack on Saturday (July 27) that hit a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killing 12 people, and vowed to inflict a heavy response. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike.
Pezeshkian is replacing hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
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