To be a fly on the wall in Tehran this morning: Khamenei lived long enough to see his entire regional project go up in flames. But the mood is hardly more cheerful for many Arab regimes: Assad's swift collapse exposes the myth of "authoritarian stability" in the region.
Game over for Assad.
Game over for the myth of 'authoritarian stability'
Game over for the counterrevolutionaries in Russia, UAE and Iran.
Long live a Free Syria! Maybe this most painful of revolutions against the most repressive of regimes in the region be a warning to the Haftars, Sisis and Saieds of this world!
A democratised Arab world is the greatest threat to Israel's occupation of Palestine.
It means Israel would be surrounded by a region of free people that desire and support the freedom of Palestinians, not a system that commits genocide against them.
Have a (brief) thought for all these travel influencers-cum-Youtubers who visited Syria in the past few years to tell us who stable and peaceful it was, and how magnanimous and good Assad was.
https://t.co/dNkjoPNMJS
So many guesses floating around as to what this flight, which has now left Port #Sudan headed back to #Syria, was carrying and why:
- The Russians,
- The Iranians,
- The Assads,
- certain arms/weapons,
none of them bode particularly well...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
The collapse of Assad's forces & government should prompt a serious introspection among 'resistance' and 'anti-imperialist' types. One can't claim the moral high ground against 'the West' & 'imperialism' if one supports repressive & miserable systems on cold interest grounds.
A narrative promoted by sectors of the regime, echoed by both grifters & well-meaning analysts will gain steam. It’ll frame the collapse of the Assad regime as a result of Qassem Soleimani’s assassination, and assume Soleimani would’ve had a plan to rescue Iran’s fortunes. 1/
As rebels advance through Syria's northern and central cities, detainees are staggering out of government prisons and into the daylight. This report documents the hell they have endured. Their torture was tailored, the cruelty extreme. https://t.co/1MvsbAu67P