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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed on Wednesday that Tehran’s “Axis of Resistance” was only made stronger by the fall of Bashar Assad, the Syrian dictator who was one of Iran’s top clients and vassals before he was overthrown by a lightning-fast jihadi insurgency last week.
“The resistance front is not a piece of hardware that breaks or collapses or is destroyed. Resistance is a faith, it is a thought, it is a heartfelt and definite decision. Resistance is a school; it is a school of belief. What is the faith of a group of people does not become weak, but becomes stronger with pressure,” he said.
Like other Iranian officials, Khamenei fumbled to explain why Iran did not protect Assad from the swift rebel onslaught, the way Iran and Russia protected him during the decade-long Syrian civil war. The ayatollah settled on claiming that Assad’s overthrow was a plot orchestrated by the United States and Israel, who used their fiendish powers to prevent the mighty Iranian military from riding to the rescue in Damascus.
Khamenei laid much of the blame on Syria’s military, which melted away before the rebel onslaught. He accused the Syrians of allowing the U.S. and Israel to thwart Iran’s efforts to thwart the rebel advance and sniffed that mighty Iran might just decide to help its Lebanese client Hezbollah fight Israel instead, because Hezbollah is more courageous than “an army that cannot endure and flees.”
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