Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran

From Damascus to Aleppo, and from Deraa to Idlib, Syrians are rejoicing at this “heavy blow” against Iran, which they “loathe,” due to the Iranian regime having sided with that of Bashar al-Assad in crushing the Syrian uprising of 2011. For the first time in its modern history, Damascus did not condemn Israeli strikes, unlike its Lebanese, Turkish, Jordanian, and Iraqi neighbors.

That is nothing short of astonishing.

On social media, many mock Iran’s apparently weak defense capabilities. “The Kowsar fighter jet, a flagship of Iranian manufacturing, is invisible on radars because no means have been found to make it fly,” jokes one poster with an accompanying photo of the plane.

Abou Adam, a former rebel fighter who became a guardian of the al-Noqta mosque, located near the former Iranian consulate in Aleppo, “rejoices at the assassination of Iranian military leaders,” including the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami. Tehran had deployed the latter in Syria to maintain its ally in power and to consolidate ‘Axis of Resistance’ against Israel and American influence in the Middle East.

“They were one of the main causes of the deaths of many innocent people in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen,” Abou Adam says. “They destroyed our cities but also attempted to spread their ideology to ensure lasting control over these countries.” In December, during the liberation of Aleppo, Abou Adam discovered the extent of Iran’s “limitless” propaganda at the cultural center next to the mosque.

Abou Jaafar, 33, a member of the security forces in Deraa, says he’s happy that the Iranian regime is weakened, “not because we support the Israelis,” but so it is punished “after all the destruction, massacres, and illicit trafficking, committed everywhere in Syria, but especially in the South.”