While the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is unlikely to disrupt the Lebanese movement’s operational continuity, it is “obviously a massive demoralization among its ranks and supporters and an absolute terror that will temporarily paralyze ordinary people” within the movement, Amal said. Saad, an expert in politics and international relations at Cardiff University in Wales, and a scholar on Hezbollah.
“This does not mean the organization is paralyzed,” she added. “Hezbollah is an organization that was built to absorb these types of shocks… it was built to be resilient and outlast individual leaders.”
Few Hezbollah leadership candidates can match Nasrallah’s popularity, said Hanin Ghaddar, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute and author of “Hezbollahland,” as he is closely associated with the group’s “golden days,” including the end of the occupation of the south. of Lebanon by Israel in 2000, and in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, both seen as major victories for the Lebanese group.
If the group’s leadership is truly dismantled and coordination between Iran and Hezbollah is disrupted, this could lead to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) taking over leadership, according to Ghaddar.
“They (Iran) will have to find a way to do it themselves. But it is not an easy option as they (will) become targets and they do not understand Lebanon.”
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