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The "Axis of Resistance" Is Shattered

(Tablet) Tony Badran - A few months before he was buried under the rubble of his Beirut bunker, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah repeated to his followers that Israel was "weaker than a spider's web." The "resistance" was led by Iran, a rising power with bases on Israel's borders. It controlled four Arab capitals and dominated the landmass across Iraq through Syria into Lebanon. In addition, Iran was allied with Russia and China. In reality, Iran's winning hand was a mirage. It took Israel 21 months to blow through it. Gaza, Iran's southern front, is now a wasteland. Next to go was Hizbullah, the best equipped of Iran's assets and the lynchpin of its regional network. Within a span of three months in 2024, Israel eliminated the group's entire command structure. Israel has maintained operational freedom and continues to take out cadres and arms caches inside Lebanon at will. In December 2024, the Assad regime, the Islamic Republic's strategic ally since the 1979 revolution, was gone. The new Sunni regime in Damascus is now intercepting weapons shipments to Hizbullah. Iran's multiple militias in Iraq displayed little motivation to get slaughtered on behalf of Iranian adventurism. Now, Iran's nuclear dreams have gone up in smoke, much like its regional enterprise.
2025-06-26 00:00:00
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