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For most of 2025, Western capitals perceived that Russia’s position in the Middle East was in terminal decline. The fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 undermined Moscow’s policy in the Levant. Furthermore, under Israel’s offensive war against the Kremlin, which the grinding war in Ukraine had already absorbed, it seemed to have neither the bandwidth nor the capital to sustain its influence in the Middle East and, above all, to lose leverage in safeguarding its strategic interests once Washington and Tel Aviv turned their full attention on Tehran. These setbacks fed a narrative that Moscow’s decades-long project of relevance in the Middle East is running out. A year and a half later, that obituary looks premature. Through a combination…
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