PARIS: World leaders warned of potential repercussions on Saturday after Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched its longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike on a suburb of Beirut.

The killing of the Iran-backed group’s chief has intensified fears of all-out battle inside the Middle East.

US President Joe Biden welcomed “a measure of justice”.

Iran
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First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned Israel that Nasrallah’s lack of life would “bring about their destruction”, Iran’s ISNA data firm quoted him as saying.

The abroad ministry of Iran, which funds and arms Hezbollah, said Nasrallah’s work will proceed after his lack of life. “His sacred goal will be realised in the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem), God willing,” spokesman Nasser Kanani posted on X.

Supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched 5 days of public mourning.

United States
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Biden said Nasrallah’s lack of life was “a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis and Lebanese civilians”.

Washington helps Israel’s correct to defend itself in opposition to “Iranian-supported terrorist groups” and the “defence posture” of US forces inside the space may be “further enhanced”, Biden added in a press launch.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Nasrallah was “a terrorist with American blood on his hands” and said she would “always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.”

Leading Republicans inside the House of Representatives moreover welcomed the highest of a “reign of bloodshed, oppression, and terror” by “one of the most brutal terrorists on the planet”.

Russia
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Russia’s abroad ministry said “we decisively condemn the latest political murder carried out by Israel” and urged it to “immediately cease military action” in Lebanon.

Israel would “bear full responsibility” for the “tragic” penalties the killing may ship to the world, the ministry added in a press launch.

Germany
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Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock instructed ARD television that the killing “threatens destabilisation for the whole of Lebanon”, which “is in no way in Israel’s security interest”.

Canada
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Nasrallah as “the leader of a terrorist organization that attacked and killed innocent civilians, causing immense suffering across the region”.

But he generally known as for further to be completed to protect civilians inside the battle, together with: “We urge calm and restraint during this critical time.”

Britain
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in a publish on X that he had spoken with the Lebanese premier.

“We agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people,” he said.

France
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot demanded Israel “immediately stop its strikes in Lebanon” and said it was in opposition to any ground operation inside the nation.

France moreover “calls on other actors, notably Hezbollah and Iran, to abstain from any action that could lead to additional destabilisation and regional conflagration”, the abroad ministry said in a press launch.

United Nations
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UN chief Antonio Guterres said he was “gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events in Beirut in the last 24 hours”.

Hamas
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Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel sparked the devastating battle in Gaza that drew in fellow Iran-backed groups along with Hezbollah, generally known as Nasrallah’s killing “a cowardly terrorist act”.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings,” Hamas said in a press launch.

Palestinian Authority
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas provided his “deep condolences” to Lebanon for the deaths of Nasrallah and civilians, who “fell as a result of the brutal Israeli aggression”, in accordance with a press launch from his office.

Huthis
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The Iran-backed Yemeni rebels, who’ve been firing on ships inside the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas, said in a press launch that Nasrallah’s killing “will increase the flame of sacrifice, the heat of enthusiasm, the strength of resolve” in opposition to Israel, with their chief vowing Nasrallah’s lack of life “will not be in vain”.

Turkey
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose nation maintains diplomatic relations with Israel nonetheless who has been a sharp critic of its offensive in Gaza, said on X that Lebanon was being subjected to a “genocide”, with out referring on to Nasrallah.

Cuba
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In a publish on X, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel generally known as the killing a “cowardly targeted assassination” that “seriously threatens regional and global peace and security, for which Israel bears full responsibility with the complicity of the United States.”

Argentina
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Argentine President Javier Milei reposted on X a message from a member of his council of monetary advisers, David Epstein, who hailed the killing.

“Israel eliminated one of the greatest contemporary murderers. Responsible, among others, for the cowardly attacks in #ARG,” it said. “Today the world is a little freer”.

Saudi Arabia
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Saudi abroad minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud instructed the UN that “this escalation will have… negative repercussions for the entire region”.

“We call upon all parties to show wisdom and to show restraint in order to avoid a true war from breaking out in the region.”

Venezuela
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed solidarity with Nasrallah and Lebanon.

“They want to justify it, but to assassinate him, they attacked buildings, housing estates and killed hundreds of people. There’s a word for this: crime.”