Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem asserted that the party’s military intervention in Syria protected Lebanon from the takfiri threat, adding that the political solution is the only way to end the Syrian crisis.

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem asserted that the party's military intervention in Syria protected Lebanon from the takfiri threat, adding that the political solution is the only way to end the Syrian crisis.

Sheikh Qassem pointed out that Iran has the right to utilize the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, stressing that Hezbollah supports the Iranian-Saudi dialogue.

His eminence emphasized that Hezbollah is committed punish the members of the treacherous Lahd militia which served the Israeli occupation army.

Sheikh Qassem reiterated Hezbollah complete support to the Palestinians in face of the Israeli aggressions.

Sheikh Naim Qassem was speaking during the celebration which the Iranian embassy in Lebanon organized to mark the 25th anniversary of the departure of the founder of the Islamic revolution, Imam Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (June 3 1989).