The message is as follows:
“In the Name of God”
Dear Hujjatul-Islam Sayed Hassan Nasrallah,
Please accept our condolences and congratulations for the honorable martyrdom of your dear young child. This is another trial you are successfully enduring on the path of God, and you epitomize the list of other trials that you have patiently passed during the difficult and granting period of Jihad and Resistance. The usurper, invasive, and brutish Zionist regime will reap no profit from their crimes, which lead to the martyrdom of the best youth of Lebanon and Palestine. Instead, the blood of the martyr Hadi, and other Muslim martyrs of Lebanon, will further intensify the resistance to the occupant regime of Palestine and Lebanon. The current Jihad against the usurper Zionist regime, with all inequality, will not end in anything other than the victory of the Truth--liberation of the usurped Islamic lands. The passage of time can never lead to forgetting the usurped rights of nations. Any blood shed in this manner, and any faithful and oppressed fighter who dies, makes that historical destiny more definitive and certain.
Once again, I offer my condolences and congratulations to you, dear parents, his fellow companions, and all the Lebanese and Palestinian youth, for the martyrdom of your young and oppressed child. I pray to God for you to be awarded and for the dear martyr to obtain the highest levels in presence of the Almighty.
Best Regards,
Sayyid Ali Khamenei
September 14, 1997
