The first days of January have become a symbol of the emergence of the post-American world. From the General Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3, 2020, to the US Congress takeover on Jan. 6, 2021, these events bear a clear message: the era of American hegemony is over.
The collapse of the US hegemony, particularly evident in West Asia, is in reality the outcome of the heroic endeavors and actions of the Axis of Resistance and, above all, the endeavors and actions of Martyr Soleimani and his brave comrades.
In order to shed light on Soleimani’s role in bringing an end to US hegemony and defeating Western plots in the region, we must first address the issue of current US objectives in West Asia.
After the 9/11 attacks, the United States began to militarily occupy West Asia under the pretext of fighting terrorism. At the time, American officials and strategists like Zbigniew Brzezinski unveiled various plans and plots such as “The Greater Middle East” or “The New Middle East” plans.
For example, during the 33-day Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an important speech: “What we’re seeing here is, in a sense, the growing — the birth pangs of a new Middle East, and whatever we do, we have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old Middle East.”
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“Iraqi democracy will succeed, and that success will send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran that freedom can be the future of every nation. The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution,” he said at the time.
At the same time, then-US Vice President Dick Cheney announced in his speech at the Davos World Economic Forum that the US government was committed to “promoting democracy throughout the greater Middle East and beyond.”
Nonetheless, this project failed like other US government projects, despite its huge costs.
Twenty years after those disastrous wars were launched, the current political situation in Iraq and Afghanistan attests to this reality. The wars, apart from costing the US economy trillions of dollars, led to many casualties in regional nations.
In the meantime, Western support for terrorist and Takfiri groups in the region nearly completed this puzzle. Groups such as Daesh — which former US President Donald Trump admitted was created by the US government — tried to destabilize the region to allow the US to pursue the strategy of creating a 30-year religious war in West Asia.
But what Western governments never included in their calculations was Martyr Soleimani — a master strategist who thwarted their plans and plots and put an end to their destructive presence in the region.
The Lebanon War was the first serious confrontation between Martyr Soleimani and the Arrogant Front. He played an important role in defeating the Zionist regime and its supporters in the 33-day war, thus bringing “The Greater Middle East” project to a dead end.
Soleimani also played a key role in equipping and strengthening the Resistance Front in Palestine, acknowledged by the Secretary General of Islamic Jihad Ziyad al-Nakhalah a few years ago.
“The power and facilities that Gaza has achieved today are the results of the great efforts of Soleimani. General Soleimani’s strategic step began with sending rockets and weapons to the Gaza Strip, and this was like a miracle,” he said.
“General Soleimani personally strived in this direction, traveled to many countries, and planned to transfer this military might [to Gaza].”
Even today, many find it astonishing that the Gaza underground tunnels, which are approximately 360 kilometers long, were one of the strategies devised by Soleimani and Martyr Imad Mughniyeh.
Ultimately, leading the Axis of Resistance against the Daesh terrorist group was Soleimani’s main action against the sc
