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"Andreas Krieg a security specialist at King’s College London, said that #Iran and other “Axis of Resistance” members would now have to concentrate on their “home turf”.
“The axis will lose its transnational flavour and its regional strategic depth.”
“They are likely going to lose that,” said Krieg. “I can’t see how the new regime or the new socio-political order will allow the Russians to remain after everything the Russians have done to prop up the Assad regime.”
Turkey, a key supporter of the rebels, is the big regional winner from Assad’s fall, Krieg added.
Krieg said events in Syria should also be a warning to the leaders in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia who also saw uprisings during the Arab Spring.
“It is game over for the myth of ‘authoritarian stability’,” he said. “Game over for the counter-revolutionaries in Russia, UAE and Iran.”