The Iran-Hezbollah-Syria axis became evident when swift and decisive help came to Syrian dictator Bashir Al-Assad after an uprising erupted against him.

The first reports of Iranian and Hezbollah intervention were from Daraa, a city of some 75,000 in southwestern Syria—a region suffering from a prolonged drought. Together with the provincial cities of Hama and Homs, it soon became a center of the antiregime protests.

Protestors said they heard southern Lebanese accents and Farsi, the language of Iran, spoken among many pro-regime forces who attacked them, indicating they may have been from Hezbollah and Iran. The opposition Reform Party of Syria similarly claimed that Iran’s notorious Revolutionary Guard had taken over a military base in Homs. One of the party’s leaders claimed Syrian forces were even being commanded by the Revolutionary Guard. “Syria has become the thirty-second province of Iran,” he declared.

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