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Hezbollah Ldr To Deliver Speech As Regional Tensions Escalate

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is set to deliver a speech shortly (English livestream here), with significant regional and global focus on his comments amid the drone strike in Beirut on 2 Jan that killed a senior Hamas figure, and the twin bombings in the Iranian city of Kerman that have killed over 100. During the course of the Israel-Hamas war there has been frequent rocket fire exchanges on the Israeli-Lebanon border, but no wider conflagration.

  • The speech is ostensibly focused on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of former Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike.
  • The last major set piece from Nasrallah during the Israel-Hamas war was strong on rhetoric, but did not instruct any broadening of the conflict towards an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

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