Posted on 12/17/2024 12:10:42 PM PST by Miami Rebel
Hezbollah lost its most important supply route from Iran through Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, the group’s chief admitted Sunday.
It was the first public acknowledgment of how upheaval in Syria had hurt the Iranian proxy, which had propped up Assad and is now fighting a war in Lebanon with Israel. Weapons to counter the Israeli campaign flowed from Iran through Syria and into Lebanon for Hezbollah.
Assad’s ousting jeopardized Syria’s close ties to Iran. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that led the overthrow of Assad, had lamented that Syria had become a "playground for Iran." Hezbollah had fought off the rebel groups on Assad’s behalf.
As it became clear Assad’s grip on power was coming undone, Hezbollah and Iran’s military forces made their exit from Syria.
Qassem took over as Hezbollah’s secretary general in October after its leader for three decades, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Israeli airstrikes south of Beirut. Hezbollah and Iran had long intervened on behalf of Assad in Syria’s 13-year civil war, but depleted by war with Israel, refused to come to his defense during the swift takeover of Damascus.
Israel has also used the chaos of Assad’s fall to destroy the Syrian army’s strategic and chemical weapons in more than 350 airstrikes across the country. And it has moved into the buffer zone that separates it from Syria – the first time the Golan buffer zone has seen Israeli forces since 1973.
"Yes, Hezbollah lost in this phase its military supply line through Syria, but this loss is merely a detail in the overall of the resistance," said Naim Qassem in a televised address.
"The supply line might come back normally with the new regime, and we can always look for other ways, the resistance is flexible and can adapt."
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In turn, Russia is Iran's strongest ally. The last few weeks haven't been kind to Putin. (Fun fact: The New York Times reported in 2012 that there were TWENTY THOUSAND Russian wives, the result of a close association between the Soviet Union and then Russia with the Assad family going back to the 60s. I wonder how many want out now.)
Meanwhile the nations in the Abraham Accords are sitting back ... and laughing.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis? And Turky’s ISIS.
If you got em, Smoke em.
They are all Terrorists.
Be on the lookout for a new pager message telling you where the new route is.
now that assad is gone
is the saudi pipeline going forward?
FR’s Allahu Akhbar Chorus deeply saddened.
How does it feel to be completely defeated on all fronts:
hamass
hezbollah
islamic jihad
houthis
asshat(d)
mullahs
But don’t get all down and commit suicide. You can wake up tomorrow and worship your evil loser racist anti-semitism. So there’s that.
Have the day you so richly deserve.
“”Yes, Hezbollah lost in this phase its military supply line through Syria, but this loss is merely a detail in the overall of the resistance,” said Naim Qassem”
in other news, Hitler stated that the annihilation of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad was merely a detail ...
P.S. I hear Amazon has a smokin’ deal on pagers.
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