Speaking at the ceremony, poet Mahmoud Habibi Kasbi stated, “A few days after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s martyrdom, we began gathering poems from Persian-speaking poets in remembrance of Nasrallah ...

These things would shape Hassan Nasrallah—bringing him to the leadership of Hizbullah, a Lebanese Shia militia backed by Iran, and enduring hostility to Israel. Enduring to the end.