(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The collapse at long last of the Assad regime in Syria is no cause for mourning unless you are the leaders of Russia and Iran. Russian state media said Sunday that Bashar al-Assad had been granted asylum in Russia. It's a particular defeat for Iran, which loses its Alawite ally to what is likely to be a Sunni Arab government. Iran's arms supply route to Hizbullah in Lebanon will be disrupted. Iran and its proxies imagined they had Israel on the run. But Israel turned the tables, first by diminishing Hamas in Gaza, then by eliminating Hizbullah's leadership, and demonstrating it can strike even heavily defended targets in Iran. Tehran's mullahs couldn't protect Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and now Assad in Syria. All of this is the result of Israel's daring and fortitude in self-defense. The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre is turning out to be a miscalculation for the ages, leading to defeats for the forces of Mideast mayhem.
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