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Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have said that the Guard’s commanders are blaming each other in angry terms for the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and the loss of Iranian influence in the region, according to sources in the British newspaper The Telegraph.
An official from the Iranian capital, Tehran, told The Telegraph:
“It’s like hitting each other, hitting walls, shouting at each other, kicking trash cans, and they’re blaming each other, and no one is taking responsibility. No one ever imagined that Assad would escape, as the focus for 10 years was just to keep him in power, and that wasn’t because we liked him, but because we wanted to maintain proximity to Israel and Hezbollah.”
Iran has spent billions of dollars to support the Assad regime after intervening in the Syrian civil war in the mid-2000s (since the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011 and the subsequent Russian intervention in 2015, when Russia was persuaded to intervene by Iran).
The government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was the backbone of a multi-country “axis of resistance,” orchestrated by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (officially designated a terrorist organization) who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2020, during Donald Trump’s first presidency.
This “axis,” or network, has already been severely damaged over the past 14 months by Israel’s wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and by British and American airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
But losing Syria could be fatal for them, since it was the main supply route for Hezbollah in Lebanon, via Iraq, whose arsenal in southern Lebanon had directed Iranian military power directly to Israel’s borders.
A second IRGC official told the Telegraph:
“We need someone there, to send weapons to him [but] he is either killed or he runs away, and now the issue is how to move forward from this impasse, at the moment there are no discussions about weapons, as everyone is trying to understand what is really happening and how dangerous it is for Iran.”
“Some blame Brigadier Esmail Qaani, the current commander of the Quds Force, for allowing Assad’s army to disperse, no one dares to tell him face to face, but… he is the one to blame and he must be held accountable.”
“He did nothing to prevent the collapse of Iran’s interests. Allies fell one by one, and he was watching from Iran, worse days may come.”
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