The domino effect set in motion by Hamas on 7 October last year is still rippling through the Middle East, this weekend resulting in the spectacular downfall of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad.
What comes next in Syria, which still has to grapple with deep internal and sectarian problems, is uncertain. In Iran, though, the picture is clearer: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can no longer deny that Tehran's political and military "axis of resistance" has collapsed.
Hezbollah, the Shia Lebanese movement long backed by Iran in their shared fight against Israel, miscalculated in coming to Hamas's aid in the war in Gaza by opening a front on the UN-demarcated blue line that separates the Lebanese from their Israeli neighbours.
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