The fall of Assad has exposed the extent of the damage to Iran’s axis of resistance
The ousting of Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad by his own people is not just a momentous national event but one with consequences spilling across the Middle East, nowhere more so than Iran. Tehran’s abrupt withdrawal from Syria, having propped up Assad since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, has exposed Iran’s strategic and military weakness.
Iran’s opportunistically constructed axis of resistance – composed of Hamas in Gaza, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Assad in Syria, militia groups in Iraq and the Yemen-based Houthis – was designed to provide Tehran with strategic depth and deter attacks. In the last year, the network has suffered significant blows at the hands of Israel.… Seguir leyendo »