The Iranian regime scrambles to explain why it was unable to protect its client, Syria's Bashar al-Assad, from being overthrown in a lightning-fast jihadi attack that accomplished in less than two weeks what it had failed to do in a decade of civil war. are.
of wall street journal (WSJ) reported On Sunday, President Bashar al-Assad desperately appealed to Iran for help after rebels captured cities and began moving towards Damascus, but said Iranian aid was “essentially I was just told that it was limited.
According to WSJ's Sources say Iran saw off Assad very quickly and actively notified the dictator that he was isolated after winning the Syrian civil war, ostensibly with Iranian and Russian support.
Iranian officials accused Assad of failing to prepare for the rebel attack and blamed Israel for failing to send reinforcements, Syrian officials said. An Iranian plane headed for Syria earlier this week made a U-turn over threats of Israeli airstrikes, officials said.
Rather than provide aid, Iran ordered the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its affiliated militias not to take part in the fighting, Syrian officials said. Iran then orchestrated the safe evacuation of its personnel and struck a deal for the fighters to peacefully hand over territory to the rebels.
Iran acted quickly to withdraw Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, putting the writing on the wall as soon as the rebels captured Aleppo, the first major conquest of the 11-day conflict. He seemed to have noticed the handwriting. Iranian proxy forces in Iraq appeared ready to support Assad, but ultimately Sent Only a few hundred fighters crossed the border, and those forces appear to have had little success on Syrian soil.
Even the rebels appeared surprised to learn that they were able to capture the city in just four days after Syrian army forces began to collapse. The rebels quickly jumped into a convoy of pickup trucks and set off for Homs, their next conquest.
Russia appears to have reached a similar conclusion with similar speed. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, respectively, have left Russia and Iran with very few resources to throw into Syria, and seeing how quickly Syrian army units flee from rebel advances, they are concerned about what they can bring to the table. I decided not to risk my meager strength. Bear.
“The overthrow of Assad and the end of his family's 50-year rule revealed how badly the Syrian army had been hollowed out by years of corruption, defections to the rebellion and the country's economic crisis. .Conscription decreased and Syrian men avoided it.'' WSJ he pointed out.
Hossein Akbari, Iranian Ambassador to Syria, said In a television interview on Sunday, he said the fall of Damascus was inevitable. He praised Assad and the Syrian army's decision to “peacefully transfer power” to “prevent further bloodshed and destruction.”
“My colleague was in Damascus until 11 p.m.” [on Saturday night] I then left the embassy, thinking that some people might cross the border by dawn. “The Iranian embassy was attacked and damaged on Sunday, which is a violation of international law,” Akbari said.
Mr. Akbari hoped that Israel would regret its victory over Iran and its proxies.
“The Zionist regime is currently content with eliminating one of its enemies, which Prime Minister Netanyahu sees as a personal achievement. But they also believe that the establishment of a new force in Syria poses a further threat to them. I'm concerned that this could happen.”
President Assad may have been genuinely surprised by the weakness of Iran's position in Syria, as Iran has sought to hide how much damage Israel has inflicted on the Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guards networks operating there. Russia launched several ineffective airstrikes against the rebels, but these quickly faded.
Bashar al-Assad appears not to have waited long to flee Iran and Russia, even though he was told he was independent. After al-Qaeda-linked rebels captured Homs, many other dormant rebel groups smelled blood in the water and became active. forward Damascus from the opposite direction. President Assad failed to give a scheduled address to the nation and disappeared on Saturday night.
Losing Syria was a bitter pill for Iranians to swallow. Like Russia, they expected rewards for intervening to save Assad during the civil war. Not only has Iran's investment in the Assad dynasty disappeared, but its entire “axis of resistance” has been shattered.
Defeat in Syria would cut Hezbollah from Iran's arms pipeline and deprive it of Iran's proxy military presence on Iran's borders. Other Iranian proxies, such as Yemen's Houthi rebels, will now face enemies they fear will collapse as quickly as the Syrian army. What's more, the Iranian theocracy may appear weaker and more vulnerable to its unhappy population than ever since the 1979 revolution that brought it to power.
Concerned Regional Analyst said The Associated Press reported Sunday that panicked Iranian rulers may go on the defensive. That could mean ramping up an illegal nuclear weapons program to project a semblance of strength in a region that loathes weakness.
The Iranian regime knows this and it could be one of the reasons for the sudden stopped On Saturday night, he began calling Syrian rebels “terrorists” and calling them “legitimate rebels” and spoke at the earliest opportunity to discuss a “proactive” approach to Iran-Syria relations. You should call Tehran.
“Iran finds itself in an unprecedented position of weakness, with its security perimeter now limited to its actual borders. The Iranian regime will need to rethink its security,” Brussels said. Jonathan Pilon, an Iran expert at the Etopia Research Center, said. said France 24 on Monday.
Reuven Azar, Israel's special envoy to India, told NDTV on Monday that Iran made a “gross miscalculation” by entrusting Hezbollah to fight Israel and depriving it of the forces it needed to support Assad. spoke.
“If you look at the pictures today, you can see that all the tentacles of the Iranian regime have been severed, and now the rebels in the region who have been following all of that and have seen the weakening of the Iranian axis. We made the most of it. That's how we see Syria changing,” Azar said.
