Iran’s Quds Force chief demands Israeli withdrawal to pre-war Lebanon lines

Iran’s Quds Force commander, Esmail Ghaani, stated on June 4 that Israel must pull back in Lebanon to positions it held before the start of the Iran war with the US and Israel, according to state media, as reported by Iran International.

“The baseline demand of the resistance is the withdrawal of the occupying regime to the position it held before the start of the 40-day war,” Ghaani stressed. The commander also said Lebanese fighters would soon see the results of their resistance.

The Quds Force is the external operations branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), designed specifically for missions outside Iran’s borders. It conducts unconventional warfare, intelligence operations, and coordinates support for allied armed groups across the Middle East and beyond.

It is considered a relatively small but highly influential elite unit that directs training, funding, and weapons transfers to proxy forces such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen.

By Jeyhun Aghazada