Mohammad Bagher Ghaliba, Iran’s parliament speaker, has acknowledged that the fall of Syria’s al-Assad has “disrupted the momentum” of the Iran-backed “axis of resistance”.
Iran’s IRNA state news agency quoted him as saying that al-Assad’s government ignored Iranian warnings before the rebel advances that ousted him.
If those warnings had been heeded, he said, “today the Syrian nation would not be on the verge of internal chaos, sectarian settlements, and damage to national assets”.
Nevertheless, Ghaliba pledged that the “resistance axis”, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group, will emerge “alive and stronger than before” and that Syria will instill “national dignity”.
“We are confident that … the Syrian people will come to their senses upon seeing the deplorable situation that has befallen their country, and the patriotic Syrian youth will be able to find a path to restoring their national dignity,” he concluded.
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