Photo of Leader, Gen. Soleimani, Nasrallah Goes Viral

Date: 29 September 2019 - 22:45

News ID: ۷۱۰۹۵

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran has released a "never before seen" photo of Leader the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei alongside Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of the Lebanese national resistance movement Hezbollah.
The photo published on the supreme leader's official website shows Nasrallah with Ayatollah Khamenei on his right and General Qasem Soleimani -- the commander of Iran's elite Qods Force -- on his left.
The trio is shown in front of what appears to be a door covered by a curtain and surrounded by shelves stacked with books -- decor associated with Ayatollah Khamenei's Tehran office.
Iran's support for Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad are an enduring feature of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy.
The picture will make the inaugural cover of a new magazine -- Massir (the Path) -- soon to be launched by khamenei.ir, the Leader's website said, while noting that the issue will publish elements of a "five hour interview" with Nasrallah.
The text references "a never before seen photo", but does not confirm the date or place where it was taken.
An advertisement on the Leader's website says that Massir will publish "for the first time... images of meetings" between Nasrallah and Ayatollah Khamenei.
The website also published around a dozen photos of Nasrallah taken "during an exclusive discussion" with officials from the Leader's office, again without detailing the place and timing of the pictures.
One of the photos shows Nasrallah sitting in an armchair in front of portraits affixed to a wall of the Leader and the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini.