S1/E41: In the Wake of Fiasco, Catastrophic Outlook

Iran's Gambit

On Asr-e Iran's satirical commentary on the 95% of Syrian voters, who voted for Bashar al-Assad in the May 2021 presidential election in Syria, but failed to support him in the face of armed opponents; and Fars News Agency's involuntarily commical comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging Assad to "democratise Syria". The program also features an English translation of an undated interview by Ahmed hussein al-Shara, Tahrir al-Sham group leader, who in an undated interview threatened to "bring the war to Iran" by inciting Iran's ethnic and religious minorities against the central government in Tehran. Finally, the program features a translation of Foreign Minister Dr. Abbas Araghchi's interviw with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, in which he assured the viewers that changes in Syria will not significantly weaken the Axis of Resistance.