Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks in a televised address via a video link during a ceremony to commemorate the death of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi and six officers, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran’s consulate in Syria last Monday, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 8, 2024. Nasrallah paid tribute to Zahedi, who spent 12 years of his career as a top general at the Iranian Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force with Hezbollah. The Hezbollah leader said he played a key role in strengthening and empowering the group which fought several wars with Israel, and has become Iran’s key proxy in the region. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)