Lebanon MP
Mohammed Raad
محمد رعدHezbollah MP and head of the party's parliamentary bloc (Loyalty to the Resistance). Long-serving spokesperson for the party's political wing.
Inherited position
Until Mohammed Raad is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Briefs about Hezbollah
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Hezbollah to other parties. 3 briefs on file.
- Hezbollah vs. Amal Movement LB The Shia Lebanese pair. The Khomeinist armed party-state against the secular-nationalist legacy movement. Adversaries in the 1980s, allies since the early 2000s.
- Hezbollah vs. Hamas PS The axis of resistance, by sect. Iranian-backed Shia Islamist party-army against Muslim Brotherhood-rooted Sunni Islamist resistance movement. Allies against the same adversary, doctrinally distinct in almost every other respect.
- Hezbollah vs. Lebanese Forces LB Lebanon's sharpest confessional rivalry. Hezbollah's Shia armed party-state vs the Lebanese Forces' Christian-right legacy of the civil war.
Other politicians in Hezbollah
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2026-05-22 Mohammed Raad (head of Hezbollah's "Loyalty to the Resistance" parliamentary bloc) — appeal to "the people of the Resistance" (Al-Manar, post-2024 ceasefire): the resistance's weapon is "the real barrier preventing the entrenchment and hegemony of the occupation"; the fight is a "defensive" national duty; and neither an alliance with America nor normalization with Israel will protect the region's peoples and sovereignty.
— سلاح المقاومة الذي تحرّكه هذه الإرادة، يشكّل المانع الحقيقي لتثبيت الاحتلال واستقراره وهيمنته — نحن وإياكم يا أهلنا نقوم بواجبنا الدفاعي الوطني والإنساني والأخلاقي، ضد العدو الصهيوني حفظًا وحمايةً لوجودنا وأرضنا…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mohammed Raad [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammad-raad
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohammed Raad." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammad-raad.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mohammad-raad,
title = {{Mohammed Raad}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammad-raad},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.