“Russia and Iran are the two big losers”

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Published on December 10, 2024 at 6:30 a.m.

Syrian opposition fighters take a selfie at the entrance to the Iranian embassy on December 8, 2024 in Damascus. HUSSEIN MALLA/AP/SIPA

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Interview For Anthony Samrani, co-editor-in-chief of the French-speaking Lebanese daily “l'Orient-le Jour”, the fall of Bashar al-Assad opens up new perspectives in the region, but also carries risks.

In “L'Orient-le Jour”, the day of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, you wrote: “hope is finally reborn in the Middle East”. How do you analyze the impact of the end of the Al-Assad dynasty for Syrians and the entire region?

It is very important to underline the ambient euphoria, the jubilation, the return of hope in Syria. It is the fall of one of the most criminal regimes in the region. Seeing Bashar al-Assad fall, thirteen years after the start of the Syrian revolution, without there being any massacres, is incredible, especially given the recent history of the region. We wonder how the rebels arrived so quickly in Damascus and how the regime is…

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