On “Forbes Newsroom,” Jonathan Conricus, senior fellow on the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, defined why he thinks the tip of Bashar al-Assad’s reign in Syria is the beginning of a sequence response that can result in the autumn of the Iranian regime.
“It’s a really dangerous week for the Iranian regime, for the Russian Federation, for Hezbollah, and for the allies of this axis of evil that exist within the Middle East.”
Key Assad allies Iran and Russia are extensively believed to have overextended themselves economically and militarily in efforts in opposition to Israel and Ukraine, respectively, resulting in their incapacity to bolster the embattled Syrian dictator in opposition to a profitable overthrow by rebels.
“The Russians and the Iranians, every from their very own aspect and from their very own goals, have invested years and trillions of {dollars} into propping up the Assad regime,” Conricus instructed Forbes. “They have misplaced this strategic funding.”
He sees the defeat of Assad as the beginning of a domino response throughout the Middle East in opposition to Iranian proxies. Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy in Lebanon, is very wounded by Assad’s fall, Conricus argued.
“They are completely depending on the supply of weapons and cash and personnel from Iran by way of Syria into Lebanon,” he stated. “Now, if Syria is not the identical freeway of weapons that it was, and if they will not have the ability to journey there, then Hezbollah in Lebanon is weakened.”
Conricus says Hezbollah being weakened might result in ethnic and spiritual minorities in Lebanon to stand up in opposition to it, which might additional a domino impact that might radically reshape the Middle East.
“The finish of that chain response is the autumn of the Iranian regime,” Conricus instructed Forbes. “That is the place the chain response will finish. I do not know the way lengthy it’s going to take, and I do know that it’ll take lots of effort to get there for the Iranian individuals to stand up in opposition to the Iranian regime.”
Watch the complete interview above.
