Subhi at-Tufaili

Subhi at-Tufaili (also Subhi Al-Tufaili , Arabic صبحي الطفيلي, DMG Ṣubḥī aṭ-Ṭufailī ; * 1948 in Brital / Bekaa ) is a former leader of Hezbollah .

He spent nine years studying in Najaf and a short time in the Iranian city ​​of Qom .

He became the leader of Hezbollah in the Bekaa Plain , one of Hezbollah's three major regional bases in Lebanon. He started resisting the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. From 1989 to 1991 he served as Secretary General of Hezbollah until he was replaced by Abbas al-Musawi .

In 1997 he led a civil disobedience campaign against the government. In 1998 there were armed clashes with the Lebanese army and Hezbollah. He is now said to have split off from the wing under Hassan Nasrallah . al-Tufaili also represents opinions that contradict the leadership of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah: He vehemently rejects support for Assad's government troops in the Syrian civil war and cites the rule of legal scholars in Iran , which is prescribed by the constitution of the Islamic Republic, " tyrannical".

In November 2019, Subhi at-Tufaili criticized the highest Iranian leader Ali Khamene'i for standing behind corruption in Lebanon and Iraq, where anti-government and corruption protests continue. Subhi at-Tufaili also criticized the peaceful protesters in Lebanon for being attacked by supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal movement , claiming the attackers were linked to the Iranian Supreme Leader. He accused Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon of being responsible for injustice and looting in Lebanon since 1972, and Khamenei had spent money buying media on his behalf during the Syrian civil war.

Web links

• International Crisis Group : "Old Games, New Rules: Conflict on the Israel-Lebanon Border" , Brussels, November 18, 2002, p. 27

literature

• R. Scott Appleby (Ed.): Spokesmen for the Despised. Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East . University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 1997, ISBN 0-226-02125-4 , pp. 158-159.
• Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Raymond Hinnebusch: Syria & Iran. Middle Powers in a penetrated regional system . Routledge, London et al. 1997, ISBN 0-415-15675-0 , pp. 136-143.
• Barry Rubin (Ed.): Revolutionaries and Reformers. Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East . State University of New York Press, Albany NY 2003, ISBN 0-7914-5618-8 , ( Middle Eastern studies - Political Science ), pp. 97-98.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ over the Syrian civil war (Engl.)  ( Not available page , search in web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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3. ↑ Ex-Hezbollah leader slams Iran Supreme Leader for Iraq, Lebanon protest deaths. Middle East Monitor, October 10, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .