Tehran renames street to honor Yahya Sinwar; Nasrallah proposal rejected english.alarabiya.net

Tehran’s city council on Tuesday approved renaming a street in the Iranian capital after the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The former Bistoon Street, located in District 6 between Jihad Square and Fathi Shaghaghi Street, will now bear the name “Martyr Yahya Sinwar,” according to IRNA.
In the same session, the council considered a proposal to rename a section of Shahid Lashgari Highway, connecting Azadi Square to Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani Highway, after the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. However, this proposal did not receive approval from the council members and was ultimately rejected, the agency said.

Both Sinwar and Nasrallah were killed earlier this year by Israel. Sinwar, the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, was widely considered the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which triggered the ongoing war in Gaza and subsequent regional crises. He was killed in Gaza on October 16.

Nasrallah, the long-time leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and a figure closely aligned with the Iranian leadership, was killed by Israel in a bombing in Beirut on September 27.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah are part of the so-called “axis of resistance,” a network of regional militias supported by Iran.