Naim Qassem, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin babban sakatare-janar na biyu na kungiyar Hezbollah na shekaru talatin, an zama sabon shugaban kungiyar ta Hezbollah. An zabe shi a ranar Talata, bayan rasuwar tsohon shugaban kungiyar, Hassan Nasrallah, wanda aka kashe a wajen harbin da Isra’ila a watan Satumba.
Qassem ya fara aikinsa na siyasa a cikin harakar Shi’ite ta Amal a Lebanon, amma ya bar ta a shekarar 1979 bayan juyin juya halin Musulunci a Iran. Ya shiga cikin tarurrukan da suka kai ga kirkirar kungiyar Hezbollah a shekarar 1982, wadda aka kirkira ta hanyar sojojin inqilabi na Iran.
Tun da ya yi aiki a matsayin babban sakatare-janar na biyu, Qassem ya zama mawaki na kungiyar Hezbollah, inda ya gudanar da manyan hirarraki da kafofin watsa labarai na duniya. Bayan kisan Nasrallah, Qassem ya zama shugaban riko na kungiyar, kuma ya yi magana da yawa a kan haliyar kungiyar ta Hezbollah.
An zabe Qassem a matsayin sabon shugaban kungiyar ta hanyar majalisar Shura ta Hezbollah, wadda ta bayyana cewa an zabe shi saboda “alaka da ka’idoji da manufofin kungiyar”. Qassem, wanda yake da shekaru 71, ya kuma bayyana a wata hira da Al Jazeera a watan Yuni cewa kungiyar Hezbollah ba ta son yada yakin da Isra’ila, amma tana shirye ta yi yaki idan aka tilastata ta.
Qassem ya koma Tehran a watan Oktoba domin tsoron kisan gilla daga Isra’ila, inda aka ruwaito cewa ya tashi daga Beirut tare da Ministan Harkokin Wajen Iran, Abbas Araghchi, zuwa Damascus, sannan daga nan ya ci gaba zuwa Tehran.
