The destroyed offices of the Jamaa Islamiya, an Islamist group allied with Hamas and Hezbollah, after it was targeted by an Israeli airstrike the previous day in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon on March 4, 2026. | Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
This is not how it was supposed to go for Iran.
For years, the Islamic Republic worked to build up a network of allies throughout the Middle East, widely known as the “Axis of Resistance,” which, in the event Iran itself were attacked, could rain down destruction on Israel, the US military, and American allies in the region....
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