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Hassan Nasrallah

حسن نصرالله
Party leader Inactive Verified

Secretary-General of Hezbollah 1992-2024. Killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik in September 2024 during the broader Israel-Lebanon war.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Hezbollah
Role
Party leader
Status
Historical figure

Inherited position

Until Hassan Nasrallah 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.

Hezbollah's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press Sectarian power-sharing → Post-sectarian / civic state
Hezbollah

Briefs about Hezbollah

Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Hezbollah to other parties. 3 briefs on file.

Other politicians in Hezbollah

Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

On the record

Quotes attributed to Hassan Nasrallah that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • The fighting fronts are open on all the fronts that you can imagine, and Israelis must wait for our response on land, sea and air.
    2023 Speech on Al-Manar TV, 3 Nov 2023, four weeks into the Gaza war. Nasrallah's first major address after Oct 7 — kept Hezbollah's direct entry into the war deliberately ambiguous. aljazeera.com
  • You wanted a long war? We will fight you for a thousand years.
    هل تريدون حرباً طويلة؟ نحن سنقاتلكم ألف سنة.
    2008 August 14 2008 televised address marking the second anniversary of the 2006 war — a rhetorical hardening as the prisoner exchange of July 2008 was being framed as confirmation of the divine-victory thesis. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org
  • Had I known on July 11 that the operation would lead to such a war, I would definitely not have done it.
    لو كنت أعلم في الحادي عشر من تموز أن العملية ستؤدي إلى مثل هذه الحرب، لما كنت قمت بها بكل تأكيد.
  • America is the great Satan, and Israel is its tool in the region — but the equation has changed: the resistance has imposed a new equation.
    أمريكا هي الشيطان الأكبر، وإسرائيل أداتها في المنطقة — ولكن المعادلة تغيرت، فالمقاومة فرضت معادلة جديدة.
    2002 2002 Jerusalem Day speech — the annual late-Ramadan address where the speaker traditionally consolidates a year of rhetorical framing into a single statement. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org
  • I tell you that the State of Israel, the entity that owns nuclear weapons and the strongest air force in the region, is weaker than a spider's web.
    أقول لكم إن «إسرائيل» التي تملك أسلحة نووية وأقوى سلاح جوي في المنطقة، إن «إسرائيل» هذه أوهن من بيت العنكبوت.
    2000 May 26, 2000 victory speech in Bint Jbeil after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The image — "spider's web" — became one of his most-cited phrases. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

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). Hassan Nasrallah [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasrallah
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Hassan Nasrallah." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasrallah.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-nasrallah,
  title     = {{Hassan Nasrallah}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasrallah},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  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 June 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.