The West cannot miss this opportunity to topple Assad

UANI Director Of IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi and UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar write: "If Syria falls, Hezbollah will be besieged… and all of its achievements will be lost.” Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s terror chief – recently killed in an Israeli airstrike – made this assertion in 2015. Nasrallah’s words are perhaps more important in today’s post-October 7 world, than they were almost a decade ago, not least as Syrian opposition forces retake territory from President Bashar al-Assad. Against this backdrop, a unique opportunity is emerging for Israel and the West to land a decisive blow to Assad, the Iranian regime and their terrorist proxy network. Retrospectively, it’s hard to know if the fall of Assad in 2015 would have prevented the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel – after all, back then, Hezbollah was intact. Today, however, the most lethal Iranian regime proxy in Lebanon has had its capabilities decimated by Israel – and, crucially, Tehran’s primary supply line to rebuild Hezbollah runs through Assad’s Syria."