Created, armed, and funded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah has long served as Tehran’s forward operating base on Israel’s northern border.
Iran has moved swiftly to rebuild Hezbollah following the death of Hassan Nasrallah, deploying senior commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force to take charge of the terror group’s shattered network.
According to the French daily Le Figaro, after Nasrallah’s assassination in September 2024, Hezbollah’s leadership collapsed into paralysis, with one operative in the report saying, “For ten days, no one answered calls. We were like a body in a coma.”
Shortly afterward, IRGC Quds Force chief Esmail Ghaani flew into Lebanon with Iranian advisers to restore order. Western intelligence sources told the paper the new arrangement leaves Hezbollah “a snake crawling in the dark — crippled but still deadly.”
Created, armed, and funded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah has long served as Tehran’s forward operating base on Israel’s northern border. After the U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Lebanon last summer, Beirut’s cabinet ordered the army to begin plans for Hezbollah’s disarmament under Western supervision.
Tehran quickly denounced the directive as an attempt to “strip Lebanon of its defenses,” even as its own operatives reportedly moved weapons north into the Bekaa Valley and beyond the Litani River.
As part of restructuring the terrorist organization, Iran has now installed a more secretive, compartmentalized command, separating Hezbollah’s political façade from its armed wing and promoting younger officers loyal to the IRGC. Furthermore, despite catastrophic battlefield losses and Lebanon’s financial collapse, Iran’s cash and weapons shipments quietly continue.
“Their aim isn’t peace,” one Western diplomat told the paper. “It’s patience — survive, rebuild, and strike when the moment returns.”
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