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The fall of Assad is a disaster for Putin. More dominoes may fall across the Middle East

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The fate of President Assad was always going to be closely linked to the fates of the mullahs in Iran and of Putin in the Kremlin .

The Iranian regime had created proxies across the Middle East and beyond to bolster their ramshackle regime.

The jewel in their crown of subversion was always Hezbollah : a state within a state in Lebanon .

This morning the Assad regime has fallen and the fate of Assad himself is unknown but speculation is that his aircraft fell victim to a Russian missile system operated by his enemies.

The war in Syria is in its last mile , and so are the wars in Gaza and Lebanon .

The future of the Houthi rebels in Yemen now also looks dubious with regime change in Tehran a possibility.

The coming weeks will be a crucial era that historians of the future will study with interest.