Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr
It has become conventional wisdom that the strikes launched on Iran this year by Israel and the United States, and the shattering of Tehran’s allies and proxy militias in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, have decisively curbed Iran’s influence in the Middle East. But this view misunderstands the nature of Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance”—and Tehran’s potential ability to reconstitute it.
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran capitalized on the turmoil to build a transnational ideological network of Shiite communities, governments, and militias from Iran to Iraq to Lebanon, Yemen, and the Palestinian
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