The autumn of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was the crescendo of a remarkably dangerous yr for the Iranian regime.
The Islamic Republic suffered main blows in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, diminishing the ability of its so-called Axis of Resistance. Its forex formally grew to become the bottom valued on this planet and when Israel decimated its proxy forces, the U.S. elected a president whom Iran so despises that it spent years attempting to assassinate him.
Right here’s a glance again at blows suffered by Ayatollah Ali Khameini and his regime over the previous yr:
The autumn of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was the crescendo of a remarkably dangerous yr for the Iranian regime. (Workplace of the Iranian Supreme Chief through AP, File)
April: counter-attack on Israel fails to inflict injury
In April, Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, prompting Iran to strike again with greater than 300 drones and missiles aimed into Israel. However Israel labored with the U.S., Jordan and Saudi Arabia to shoot down almost each missile and drone.
Could: president dies in helicopter crash
The late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash whereas visiting a distant space. Iran has blamed the crash on dense fog. Raisi was a protégé and potential successor of Iran’s supreme chief, Khameini.
July: high Hamas commander taken out
Whereas Iran inaugurated a brand new president this summer time, Israel infiltrated to take out Hamas commander Ismail Haniyeh whereas he was visiting Tehran for the inauguration. Whereas Haniyeh was staying in a VIP authorities visitor home, Israel detonated a remote-controlled bomb.
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October: Hamas head and architect of October 7 assault killed
Israel Protection Forces (IDF) took out Hamas head Yahya Sinwar after encountering him on a routine patrol within the Gaza metropolis of Rafah. Sinwar was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, assaults on Israel and was one of the vital wished males of the battle.
Hamas has misplaced hundreds of fighters and far of its management ranks to Israel’s assaults and is nowhere close to the threatening drive on Israel’s borders Iran hoped it could be.
IDF took out Hamas head Yahya Sinwar after encountering him on a routine patrol within the Gaza metropolis of Rafah. (AP)
November: Trump elected
Iran’s forex tanked to an all-time low upon information of the Trump election, and the expectation that he may carry again a “most stress” coverage.
The Iranian rial is down 46% this yr, making it formally the least-valuable forex on this planet.
Iran has lengthy vowed revenge for Trump approving the 2019 killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani – and U.S. intelligence revealed Tehran plots to kill the president-elect.
After the Trump administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, it imposed harsh sanctions on the regime to cease its funding of proxies overseas, banning U.S. residents from buying and selling with Iran or dealing with Iranian cash.
It additionally punished entities in different nations that did enterprise with Iran, by reducing them off from the greenback.
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President Joe Biden typically waived enforcement of such sanctions, eager to carry Tehran again to the negotiating desk to forestall it from buying nuclear weapons and afraid of driving up world oil costs.
Iran’s forex tanked to an all-time low upon information of the Trump election, and the expectation that he may carry again a “most stress” coverage. (AP Photos)
Iran gained entry to greater than $10 billion via a State Division sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to proceed shopping for vitality from Iran, which the Biden administration argues is important to maintain lights on in Baghdad.
November: Hezbollah indicators ceasefire with Israel
Within the fall, Israel reoriented a lot of its efforts towards pummeling Hezbollah after a collection of cross-border assaults from the Lebanese militant group. Israel focused Hezbollah’s management and detonated a whole lot of pagers the group had been utilizing to speak. On the finish of November, Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire the place it and Israel should each finish their armed presences in southern Lebanon.
Each side have claimed the opposite has damaged the delicate truce, but it surely has ostensibly held for weeks.
December: Assad falls
Syrian rebels despatched Iran’s Quds forces, an extension of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, working as they captured Damascus and pushed out President Bashar al-Assad. Iran’s forces had been in Syria propping up Assad since civil battle broke out in 2011, however had been diminished because the outbreak of battle elsewhere within the Center East.
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Syria’s new authorities is ready to be run by Sunni Muslims, hostile to Iran’s Shiite authorities. And Iran misplaced a key provide line via Syria it had used to arm Hezbollah in its battle towards Israel.
