unparalleled resistance against the crimes and the Zionist regime

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (R) and Ziyad al-Nakhaleh, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, meet in Tehran on February 22, 2025. (Photo by Tasnim news agency)

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چهارشنبه - ۲۳ ارديبهشت ۲۰۲۵ / 2025 23 February

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the resistance front has achieved a “strategic and tactical” victory against Israel during the regime’s 15 months of genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

Qalibaf made the remarks in a meeting with Ziyad al-Nakhaleh, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, in Tehran on Saturday.

He praised the resistance of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in the face of the Israeli regime’s aggression, stating that the resistance has created a “major epic” in the Muslim world, demonstrating the victory of "blood over the sword."

The top Iranian parliamentarian added that Palestinians have shown “unparalleled resistance against the crimes and aggression of the Zionist regime and its genocide.”

Qalibaf said that during his visit to Beirut at the height of the war, he witnessed firsthand how Hezbollah fighters and the Lebanese people were firmly standing up against the Israeli regime, even though Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had just been assassinated.

He emphasized that in Gaza the Palestinian resistance has proven that the Zionists are vulnerable and that the barriers they have created will never bring them security.

He added that the US, the Israeli regime, NATO, and all supporters of Zionism have attempted to establish an air defense system for Israel to prevent any attacks on the occupied territories.

However, the resistance front has demonstrated that all the efforts made by the US, the Israeli regime, NATO, and the Hebrew-Arabic alliance, have failed, he pointed out.

Israel unleashed a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel was forced to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza after the regime failed to achieve its objectives of freeing the captives and eliminating Hamas, despite killing at least 48,319 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The Tel Aviv regime accepted Hamas’s terms under the Gaza truce, which began on January 19.

The US rushed billions of dollars in military aid to the Israeli regime throughout the war on Gaza.

Resistance not limited to just fighting Israel: Nakhaleh

Nakhaleh, for his part, said that the resistance front is not confined to fighting only the Israeli regime but also the US and its allies.

He added that the resistance against Israel’s crimes forced the regime to accept the Gaza ceasefire.

The Islamic Jihad secretary-general emphasized that the occupying regime caused extensive destruction in Gaza and Lebanon using American weapons. However, he asserted that the resistance front in Lebanon and Palestine emerged victorious.