Iran may not be finished paying for its massive miscalculation against Israel. Of the two proxy armies that have been decimated if not destroyed in the war launched by Hamas and Hezbollah in October 2023, the latter is by far the most significant to Iran’s geopolitical ambitions. Hezbollah didn’t just turn Lebanon into a puppet state for Tehran, but it also propped up Bashar al-Assad against Sunni Islamist rebels over the last thirteen years.
Now, with Iranian puppet Bashar al-Assad reportedly out of the country, rumors of a coup have followed on the news that Aleppo has fallen to a coalition of rebels:
The sounds of gunfire were heard in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday night as speculation grew that an attempted coup d’etat was under way.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) state television network was off the air Saturday night, and the…
