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Ahmadinejad’s special envoy attends (late) Fazlallah’s funeral
Tehran, July 6, IRNA – Vice-President and head of Iran's Martyrs and War Disabled Veterans Foundation Mohammad Zaribafan is attending the funeral procession of late Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Fazlallah in Lebanon.
According to a report from the Public Relations Office of the Martyrs and War Disabled Veterans Foundation, Monday, Zaribafan is to deliver the condolence message of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the people and Shi’a Muslims of Lebanon and the esteemed bereaved family members of Fazlallah.
The US and Israel had made at least six failed attempts to assassinate Allameh Fazlallah during the past three decades of his life.
The first attempt on Fazlallah's life came in 1985, when a car bomb exploded near his home in south Beirut, killing 80 people. The 440-pound bomb, planted between his apartment block and a nearby mosque, was timed to go off as he passed by on his way to prayers. But Fazlallah had stopped to listen to the complaints an old woman and escaped the blast.
The CIA was widely believed to have been behind the bombing, with American reports later claiming CIA director William Casey had ordered Lebanese agents to plant the explosives.
Then, during its war with Hezbollah in 2006, Israeli warplanes dropped bombs which flattened Fazlallah's house. He was elsewhere.
Mohammed Fazlallah was born in the Shi’a holy city of Najaf, Iraq, in 1935, and lived there until the age of 30. He studied logic and jurisprudence and was soon considered to be a leading cleric. He also worked closely with Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, a co-founder of the Shi’a Dawa Party, later crushed by the former Iraqi tyrant ruler, Saddam Hussein.
In the 1970s Fazlallah returned to his ancestral family village of Ainata in southern Lebanon, where he began to encourage Shi’as, who now comprise a more than a third of Lebanon's population of four million, to fight for their rights, and to resist against the expansionist policies pursued by the usurper Zionist regime.
He also sanctioned Palestinian nation’s brave reistance against Israel, including "martyrdom operations". "They have had their land stolen, their families killed; their homes destroyed," he said in an interview in 2002 with The Daily Telegraph. "I was not the one who launched the idea of so-called suicide bombings, but I have certainly argued in favor of them."
He supported the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.
In south Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley, where many Lebanese Shi’as live, Fazlallah founded the Family of Brotherhood charity and the Al-Mabarrat network of charities, orphanages and schools.
Mohammed Fazlallah is survived by his wife Najat Noureddin and 11 children. His eldest son has also become a Muslim scholar.
According to a report from the Public Relations Office of the Martyrs and War Disabled Veterans Foundation, Monday, Zaribafan is to deliver the condolence message of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the people and Shi’a Muslims of Lebanon and the esteemed bereaved family members of Fazlallah.
The US and Israel had made at least six failed attempts to assassinate Allameh Fazlallah during the past three decades of his life.
The first attempt on Fazlallah's life came in 1985, when a car bomb exploded near his home in south Beirut, killing 80 people. The 440-pound bomb, planted between his apartment block and a nearby mosque, was timed to go off as he passed by on his way to prayers. But Fazlallah had stopped to listen to the complaints an old woman and escaped the blast.
The CIA was widely believed to have been behind the bombing, with American reports later claiming CIA director William Casey had ordered Lebanese agents to plant the explosives.
Then, during its war with Hezbollah in 2006, Israeli warplanes dropped bombs which flattened Fazlallah's house. He was elsewhere.
Mohammed Fazlallah was born in the Shi’a holy city of Najaf, Iraq, in 1935, and lived there until the age of 30. He studied logic and jurisprudence and was soon considered to be a leading cleric. He also worked closely with Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, a co-founder of the Shi’a Dawa Party, later crushed by the former Iraqi tyrant ruler, Saddam Hussein.
In the 1970s Fazlallah returned to his ancestral family village of Ainata in southern Lebanon, where he began to encourage Shi’as, who now comprise a more than a third of Lebanon's population of four million, to fight for their rights, and to resist against the expansionist policies pursued by the usurper Zionist regime.
He also sanctioned Palestinian nation’s brave reistance against Israel, including "martyrdom operations". "They have had their land stolen, their families killed; their homes destroyed," he said in an interview in 2002 with The Daily Telegraph. "I was not the one who launched the idea of so-called suicide bombings, but I have certainly argued in favor of them."
He supported the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.
In south Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley, where many Lebanese Shi’as live, Fazlallah founded the Family of Brotherhood charity and the Al-Mabarrat network of charities, orphanages and schools.
Mohammed Fazlallah is survived by his wife Najat Noureddin and 11 children. His eldest son has also become a Muslim scholar.
