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In interviews, Zeinab and Mohammed Jawad Nasrallah speak of how Israeli strikes damaged morale in Hezbollah terror group, say father was noticeably ‘no longer with us’
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah became depressed and was emotionally changed by Israel’s exploding pager attack on his operatives as well as by strikes that decimated the group’s leadership, his family told Lebanese media.
His son said Nasrallah was noticeably no longer the same man, and his daughter revealed that he cried after the beeper attack.
Nasrallah’s son, daughter, and three grandchildren spoke to Al-Manar television for interviews that were broadcast on Friday.
On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah across Lebanon suddenly exploded, killing dozens of operatives and maiming thousands, marking the beginning of Israel’s escalation against the terror group after almost a year of persistent Hezbollah rocket fire that displaced some 60,000 residents of the north, and was met with Israeli airstrikes.
The pagers, laced with explosives, were detonated via an encrypted message that required users to hold the devices with both hands, maximizing the likelihood of the subsequent blast causing debilitating injuries.
Over the next several weeks, Israeli airstrikes pounded Hezbollah, wiping out almost all of its leaders — including Nasrallah himself — and depleting the Iran-backed terror group’s fighting abilities. A ceasefire was eventually reached at the end of November.
Nasrallah’s daughter Zeinab Nasrallah told Al-Manar that she called her mother the day after the beeper explosions to find out how her father had reacted.
“She told me that he cried,” Zeinab Nasrallah said, according to an English translation of her comments on the site.
Son Mohammed Jawad Nasrallah said that his father sank into a serious depression after a July airstrike killed Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in his Beirut apartment, and then the beeper attacks.
Everyone who met him said “he is no longer with us,” Jawad Nasrallah recalled.
In addition, Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, once the conflict escalated into open war, had a profound effect on the Hezbollah leader, and directly impacted the terror group’s morale, Nasrallah said.
He also said that his father was aware of the danger he faced, but apparently had dropped his guard and become less cautious than he had in the past about evading a possible Israeli strike against him.
Ten days after the beeper attack, Israel killed Nasrallah in a massive bombing of his Beirut underground bunker. He had led the terror group for three decades.
Last December, two former Mossad agents spoke to CBS’s 60 Minutes about the beeper operation, with one of them asserting that the veteran Hezbollah leader saw pagers exploding and injuring people who were right next to him in his bunker.
“Nasrallah — when we operated the beeper operation — just next to him in the bunker several people had a beeper receiving the message. And in his own eyes, he saw them collapsing.”
Asked how he knew that, the agent said, “It’s a strong rumor.”
Two days after the attack, Nasrallah gave a speech.
“If you look at his eyes, he was defeated,” the agent said in accented English. “He already lose the war. And his soldier look at him during that speech. And they saw a broken leader.”
Last week, Mossad chief David Barnea described the beeper operation as a “turning point” in the fight in Lebanon.
Nasrallah was buried last week in a Beirut funeral ceremony. As the funeral began at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Lebanon’s biggest sports arena, Israeli warplanes flew at low altitude over Beirut.
The beeper attacks, swiftly attributed to Israel, came as Israel began to step up a counteroffensive against Hezbollah, which began striking Israel the day after the allied Palestinian terror group Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack.
Some 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, were killed in the Hamas onslaught, and 251 were taken hostage, sparking the war in Gaza.
A complex, three-phase ceasefire with Hamas began last month, though its future is unclear, as only the first stage has been completed.
Iran’s uranium stockpile surges, IAEA warns of nuclear weapon threat – The Jerusalem Post
March 3, 2025Source: Iran’s uranium stockpile surges, IAEA warns of nuclear weapon threat – The Jerusalem Post
ran’s 60% level enriched uranium had increased to 275 kilograms, an increase of approximately one full nuclear weapon’s worth per month since December.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
MARCH 3, 2025 13:26
Updated: MARCH 3, 2025 13:32
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Iranian missiles are displayed during the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025. (photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA)
Iranian missiles are displayed during the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025.
(photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA)
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi on Monday informed the organization’s Board of Governor’s that Iran’s 60% level enriched uranium had increased to 275 kilograms, an increase of approximately one full nuclear weapon’s worth per month since December.
Further, the IAEA has found that Tehran has enough 60% enriched uranium which could be quickly converted to the 90% weaponized level, to make six nuclear weapons, if it decided to do so.
This is without even taking into account the Islamic Republic’s enriched uranium to 20% and lower levels.
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Israeli and some US estimates are that Iran could potentially develop an even larger number of nuclear weapons than the IAE estimates, especially if they made smaller nuclear bombs.
Iran’s latest spike in uranium enrichment was its response to the IAEA Board condemning it in November 2024 for nuclear violations.
Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during a meeting between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nuclear scientists and personnel of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in Tehran, Iran June 11, 2023. (credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)Enlrage image
Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during a meeting between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nuclear scientists and personnel of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in Tehran, Iran June 11, 2023. (credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)
The report also comes as top Iranian officials forced out Vice President Javad Zarif, one of the government’s top advocates for diplomacy with the West.
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has so far signaled zero willingness to trust and negotiate with the Trump administration over the nuclear and other issues, given the increased sanctions that the administration has placed on Iran since US President Donald Trump took office on January 20.
Khamenei has said Trump’s pulling out of the nuclear deal between Iran and the West in 2018 disqualifies him from being a trusted negotiating partner, while Trump has said Khamenei has a limited timeline to cut a deal before facing consequences.
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Grossi told the Board, “Following my last report, Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched up to 60% U‑235 has increased to 275 kg, up from 182 kg in the past quarter. Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon State enriching to this level, causing me serious concern.”
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“It has been four years since Iran stopped implementing its nuclear-related commitments,” under the nuclear deal, said the IAEA chief.
Further, he said Iran’s claim that it has declared all of its nuclear materials “is inconsistent with the Agency’s findings of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at undeclared locations in Iran. The Agency needs to know the current locations of the nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment involved.”
“There is also a discrepancy in the material balance of uranium involved in uranium metal production experiments conducted at Jaber Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratory, for which Iran has not accounted,” he warned.
In addition, he stated, “I deeply regret that Iran, despite having indicated a willingness to consider accepting the designation of four additional experienced Agency inspectors, did not accept their designation.”
Moreover, he said that he will “produce a comprehensive and updated assessment on the presence and use of undeclared nuclear material in connection with past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program,” as instructed by the Board in November, but did not give a deadline for filing the report.
Finally, he added, “My visit to Tehran last November, and meetings with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi indicate that there may be room for constructive compromises. I hope to see them again soon and pursue effective dialogue and tangible results,” though he cautioned that so far there has been no progress.
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