{"id":315102,"date":"2026-02-28T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315102\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:36:13","slug":"hezbollah-backs-iran-amid-us-israel-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315102\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah backs Iran amid US Israel strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/hezbollah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> expressed solidarity with Iran on Saturday as it came under attack from the United States and Israel, warning in a statement of dire consequences for the region without saying whether it would get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah, a Shi&#8217;ite Muslim terror group and political party that has fought numerous conflicts with Israel since being established by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards<\/a> in 1982, was severely weakened by Israel in a war in 2024, when its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Israel had warned Beirut that it would strike Lebanon hard, targeting civilian infrastructure including the airport, if Hezbollah involved itself in any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US-Iran war.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hezbollah said the consequences of the US-Israeli plan would &#8220;affect everyone without exception if left unchallenged.&#8221; &#8220;We are confident that the American and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-888289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli enemy<\/a> will receive a major blow,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said he would not accept anyone dragging Lebanon into &#8220;adventures that threaten its security and unity,&#8221; a veiled message to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a statement released after Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, Salam noted the &#8220;serious developments&#8221; in the region and called on &#8220;all Lebanese to act with wisdom and patriotism, placing Lebanon and the Lebanese people\u2019s interests above any other consideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah expressed solidarity with Iran on Saturday as it came under attack from the United States and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,87,46,88,43,157282,157283,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":{"0":"post-315102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-operation-epic-fury","15":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}