After Syrian rebels have forced Bashar al-Assad out, will the Iranian regime be the next to collapse?

The dominos are falling in the Middle East, and the last one may be about to topple. The fall of Assad in Syria isn’t just the end of a regime — it’s a warning to Iran. With its allies crumbling and internal dissent surging, Tehran faces its biggest challenge yet. Is Iran next to fall?

NY Post – Douglas Murray For the past 45 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government in Iran has been the main destabilizing force in the region, against pretty stiff competition.The ayatollahs have colonized vast swaths of the Middle East, though you won’t hear the dolts on American college campuses hollering about that.

For decades the mullahs moved their armies into Lebanon. After the vacuum left by American-led intervention in Iraq, they moved their militias there. They also moved into Yemen. And for the past 13 years, they propped up their ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

But then Iran’s proxy army Hamas invaded Israel. The ayatollahs hoped to wipe out the Jewish state. But that didn’t go as well as they planned. In fact, it has backfired completely.

Israel has spent the past 14 months decimating the armies of Iran. It has almost completely degraded Hamas in Gaza. It whacked Hezbollah so hard in Lebanon that Hezbollah started begging for a cease-fire, though there weren’t many people in the organization left to make that ask.

And after a set of direct missile strikes from Iran at Israel, the Israeli air force took out all of Iran’s air defenses. Then this past week, with Iran’s armies diverted and destroyed, the Assad regime finally fell.

The vacuum left in that country will be troubling everyone in the region — and the world. But the main defeat is Tehran’s. The mullahs are now naked and increasingly alone. They haven’t yet dared retaliate for the last Israeli strike — probably because they know that this time, the response might herald the end not just of their oil fields and nuclear ambitions, but of their revolutionary regime altogether.

The Israeli Air Force once again showed this week how that can be done. At the beginning of the week, the Israelis took out almost the entirety of the Syrian air force and navy. In a stunning set of attacks, they also took out Assad’s chemical weapons facilities before the jihadist groups that have taken control of Syria could get their hands on them.

I wish the State Department and others had spent recent years preparing for a post-Assad Syria and post-ayatollah Iran. But it’s never too late to start. Now might be just the right time to consider the latter.

The Iranian revolutionary government started this war. But America, with our allies like Israel in the region, can ensure that they lose it.