Key speeches
81 events
- 4 August 1970Chehab declines to run againOn 4 August 1970 former president Fouad Chehab issued a statement declining to run for the presidency despite his…
- 18 August 1975LNM announces its reform programme
- 12 September 1982The Deir al-Qamar speech: "the 10,452 km²"On 12 September 1982 president-elect Bachir Gemayel gave the last of his public speeches in Deir al-Qamar before the…
- 16 February 1985Hezbollah's open letterOn 16 February 1985, on the anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Sayyed Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed read…
- 11 March 1986Nasrallah to al-Khaleej: civil war and resistance
- 3 February 1989al-Wahda al-Islamiya interview: Shiite reconciliation
- 18 February 1992Nasrallah's first speech as secretary-generalOn 18 February 1992, at the funeral of Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi in Nabi Sheet, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave his first…
- 27 February 1992As-Safir interview after Musawi's assassination
- 25 August 1992An-Nahar interview: "victory at the polls"
- 27 August 1993Nasrallah on the "first understanding" after Operation Accountability
- 27 January 1995Nasrallah honouring journalists: "the only organisation with deposits in America is Fatah"
- 26 April 1995Press conference naming Salah Ghandour: "the initiative is in the resistance's hands"
- 2 May 1995Nasrallah's eulogy for Salah Ghandour
- 30 April 1996Nasrallah on the April UnderstandingOn 30 April 1996, the day after the announcement of the April Understanding following the Qana massacre, Sayyed Hassan…
- 13 September 1997Nasrallah on his son Hadi's deathOn 13 September 1997, the day after his son Hadi's martyrdom at Jabal al-Rafi, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah spoke to the…
- 4 December 1997Day of the Wounded: "no remains-for-bodies swap, the prisoners come first"
- 24 January 1998Support Committee iftar: 1997 in review, "the resistance needs money, not men"
- 29 March 1998Nasrallah on "conditional withdrawal": no negotiation over 425
- 7 May 1998Nasrallah's speech "on the Jews"
- 1998Honouring martyrs' families: "we faced the myth of the invincible army; now they face the invincible martyr"
- 1 January 1999Support Committee iftar: 1,352 operations in 1998 and an outstretched hand to the Lahoud era
- 26 April 1999Ashura 1999: "wait for the resistance at the doors of your houses and your bedrooms"On 26 April 1999 (the tenth of Muharram 1420, coinciding with the anniversary of Grapes of Wrath) Sayyed Hassan…
- 17 May 1999Beit Yahoun reception speech: "Barak is weaker than a spider's web"On 17 May 1999, the day of the Israeli elections, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah received in the southern suburbs the men who…
- 21 June 1999"Towards liberation": no trust in Barak's pledge
- 31 December 1999Quds Day 1999: "the enemy before you is weaker than a spider's web", to the Palestinians before the liberationOn 31 December 1999, the last day of the century, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah opened the Quds Day speech with the verse…
- 23 May 2000Nasrallah to Lahad's men on the eve of the withdrawal: "in their homes and in their beds"On the eve of the Israeli withdrawal, in a live call to al-Manar television, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned the men of…
- 26 May 2000The "spider's web" speechOn 26 May 2000, at the victory rally in Bint Jbeil, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah presented the Israeli withdrawal as "the…
- 20 September 2000The Maronite bishops' appealOn 20 September 2000 the Council of Maronite Bishops, headed by Patriarch Sfeir, issued an appeal demanding the…
- 12 October 2000al-Rai al-Aam interview on the second intifada
- 11 November 2001Nasrallah on 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan
- 13 March 2003Nasrallah against the Iraq invasion
- 21 May 2004The shrouds march in Beirut for Najaf and KarbalaOn 21 May 2004 Hezbollah held a mass march in the southern suburbs, the marchers wearing shrouds in solidarity with the…
- 15 February 2005Nasrallah the night after Hariri's assassination: "we must not rush to accuse"On 15 February 2005, on an Ashura night the day after Hariri's assassination, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called the…
- 8 March 2005The "thank you Syria" speechOn 8 March 2005 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed hundreds of thousands in Riad al-Solh Square, thanking Syria for its…
- 25 November 2005Ghajar martyrs speech: "Who are you?"On 25 November 2005, at the Sayyed al-Shuhada complex in Rweiss during the honouring of the three martyrs of the Ghajar…
- 9 February 2006Ashura speech against the cartoons of the Prophet
- 5 June 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the "Basmat Watan" protests
- 12 July 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the captureAt noon on 12 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced at a press conference the execution of "the Truthful Promise"…
- 14 July 2006Nasrallah: "look at it burning" (INS Hanit hit)On the evening of 14 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the Lebanese and announced, during the speech, that…
- 16 July 2006Second wartime appeal: Haifa and beyond
- 20 July 2006Nasrallah: "if the whole universe came it could not recover the two prisoners without negotiations"
- 21 July 2006Al Jazeera interview: no release without an exchange; Berri the only channel
- 25 July 2006The "beyond beyond Haifa" address: no humiliating terms
- 28 July 2006The fighters' letter from the border: "we are your truthful promise"
- 29 July 2006Appeal: "in the battle of wills we will not break"
- 3 August 2006Nasrallah: if you bomb Beirut we bomb Tel AvivOn 3 August 2006, after the second Qana massacre and the bombing of the southern suburbs, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 9 August 2006Message on the seven points and the draft UN resolution
- 14 August 2006The "strategic and historic victory" speech and the reconstruction pledgeOn 14 August 2006, the day of the cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 22 September 2006"Divine Victory" rallyOn 22 September 2006 hundreds of thousands gathered in the southern suburbs for the "Divine Victory rally", and Sayyed…
- 7 December 2006Nasrallah: "the Feltman government"On 7 December 2006, the seventh day of the central Beirut sit-in, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Siniora's government…
- 14 February 2007Jumblatt's 14 February 2007 speech: "tyrant of Damascus, an ape nature never knew"On 14 February 2007, on the second anniversary of Hariri's assassination, before a crowd in Martyrs' Square beside the…
- 14 February 2008Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war"
- 14 February 2008Nasrallah at Mughniyeh's funeral: "open war"On 14 February 2008 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the funeral of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Mughniyeh in the…
- 8 May 2008Nasrallah's press conference: "I declare no war, but a decision of self-defence"On the afternoon of 8 May 2008, the day after the strike on which demonstrators were shot at, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 29 December 2008Nasrallah calls on Egyptians to open RafahOn 28 December 2008, the second day of the "Cast Lead" aggression, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on the Egyptian…
- 30 November 2009Hezbollah's new political documentOn 30 November 2009 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah read out the party's second political document after the Open Letter…
- 9 August 2010Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conferenceOn 9 August 2010 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah presented at a press conference evidence of Israel's involvement in Hariri's…
- 6 September 2010Hariri retracts the accusation against SyriaOn 6 September 2010 Saad Hariri said in an interview with "Asharq al-Awsat" that accusing Syria of his father's…
- 25 May 2011Nasrallah on Liberation Day: backing the Syrian regimeOn 25 May 2011 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah rejected any Western sanctions on Syria and any Lebanese participation in…
- 2 July 2011Nasrallah's reply to the indictmentOn 2 July 2011 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment issued against four "resistance brothers with an…
- 17 September 2012The "loyalty to the Prophet" march against the offensive filmOn 17 September 2012 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah personally led a mass march in the southern suburbs in protest at the film…
- 11 October 2012Nasrallah claims the "Ayoub" drone
- 30 April 2013Nasrallah confirms Hezbollah fighting in SyriaOn 30 April 2013 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explained the reasons for fighting in Syria: more than 30,000 Lebanese in the…
- 25 May 2013Liberation Day 2013 at Mashghara: "be where you wish"On 25 May 2013, on Resistance and Liberation Day in Mashghara and at the height of the battle of Qusayr, Sayyed Hassan…
- 16 August 2013Nasrallah after Rouwaiss: "I will go to Syria myself"On 16 August 2013, the day after the Rweiss bombing, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the bombings would not deter the…
- 25 July 2014Quds Day 2014 speech: "we stand with Gaza"
- 27 March 2015Nasrallah against "Decisive Storm"On 27 March 2015, two days after the start of the Saudi war in Yemen, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah attacked Saudi Arabia in…
- 17 April 2015Yemen solidarity rally: "the Yemenis need no certificate of their Arabness"
- 16 February 2016The "Haifa ammonia" speech
- 5 November 2017Nasrallah: Hariri's resignation is a Saudi decision and he is being heldOn 5 November 2017, the day after Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the…
- 11 December 2017Jerusalem solidarity demonstration in Dahieh
- 18 October 2019Hariri's 72-hour speechOn 18 October 2019, the second day of the uprising, Saad Hariri gave his partners in the government 72 hours to accept…
- 25 October 2019Nasrallah: we will not allow the presidency to fallOn 25 October 2019, in his second speech during the uprising, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that Hezbollah would not…
- 5 January 2020Nasrallah: the response is to expel America from the regionOn 5 January 2020, two days after the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that "the…
- 28 March 2020Nasrallah: Covid is a "humanitarian battle"
- 7 August 2020Nasrallah after the port explosion: "no arms, no missiles at the port"On 7 August 2020, three days after the port explosion, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah denied any presence of the party's…
- 25 May 2021Liberation Day 2021: the "Jerusalem equation"
- 11 October 2021Nasrallah attacks the judge Tarek BitarOn 11 October 2021 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah accused the judicial investigator into the port explosion, Tarek Bitar, of…
- 24 August 2022"Alphabet of victory": Hezbollah's 40th anniversary speechOn 24 August 2022 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah spoke at the celebration of the party's fortieth anniversary (1982–2022),…
- 17 September 2022Nasrallah: "our eyes and our missiles are on Karish"In September 2022, as Israel approached the start of production at the Karish field before the signing of the…
- 3 November 2023Nasrallah's first speech after 7 OctoberOn 3 November 2023, after four weeks of anticipation, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave his first speech after the al-Aqsa…