The president of the United States, Joe Biden, attributed this Sunday the fall of Bashar al Assad in Syria to the weakness of Iran and Russia in a press conference after Islamist insurgents entered Damascus and ended the control of the regime.
In Biden’s opinion, the fall of Al Assad is “direct result of the blows that Ukraine and Israel have dealt in self-defensewith the tireless support of the United States”, and that during his mandate Washington “pursued a clear and principled policy towards Syria”.
“That is because Ukraine, backed by American allies, erected a wall against invading Russian forces, inflicting massive damage on Russian forces that left Russia unable to protect its main ally in the Middle East,” Biden said from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. In that sense, the president stated that Assad’s main supporters “for years” have been Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, but that “over the last week their support has collapsed.”
“For the first time in historya, neither Russia nor Iran nor Hezbollah could defend this abominable regime in Syria,” the president stressed.
“In the last week, their support has collapsed, because all three of those three are now weaker today than when I came to the White House. And let’s remember why. After Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, when most of the world responded horrified, Iran and its satellite allies launched a multi-front war against Israel. “That was a historic mistake by Iran,” he stated.
