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'It's All over': How Iran Abandoned Assad to His Fate Days ...
Iran evacuated about 4,000 military personnel and diplomats within days as rebel forces captured key Syrian cities and Assad fled, signaling a strategic withdrawal.
- On December 6, Iran halted its military involvement in Syria and evacuated approximately 4,000 fighters, while the Damascus consulate was empty by December 5 as diplomats fled to Beirut.
- Islamist rebel forces' swift gains around Aleppo pushed Iran to disengage, and two days later Islamist forces captured Damascus without a fight after Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia.
- Inside abandoned Iranian bases near Aleppo, passports and identity documents were left behind, while at Jdeidet Yabus on December 5 and 6, consulate staff were paid and told to stay home amid an eight-hour bottleneck.
- Iran's pullback removed a key external backer and helped expedite Bashar al-Assad's ouster as opposition forces seized Damascus, with the United Nations reporting more than 1.2 million Syrians returned over the past year.
- The withdrawal reshaped regional power dynamics as Iranian military personnel from Lebanon and Iraq melted away, amid Israel's hundreds of strikes targeting Iran-backed groups in Syria.
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'It's all over': how Iran abandoned Assad to his fate days before fall
As city after city fell to a lightning rebel offensive in Syria last December, Iranian forces and diplomats supporting Bashar al-Assad saw the writing on the wall, abandoning the longtime ruler days before his ousting, sources told AFP.
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