So Long, Safieddine

The world knew Hashem Safieddine's name for exactly a week before the IDF buried him under the suburbs of Beirut. I should clarify. If you were possessed of anything beyond a glancing familiarity with Hezbollah prior to recent events, you knew Safieddine as Hassan Nasrallah's cousin and likely heir. He was a prominent, bellicose figure who, like his cousin, traced a decades-old relationship with Iran which was both close and personal. So, although the world at large was only aware of Safieddin