Iran and Its Terror Proxies Depend on Russian Support

Despite the many dangers in Syria, the country now poses far less of a threat to Israel—and to its own people—than during the reign of the Assad clan. The fall of that regime was made possible by both Israel’s devastating assault on Hizballah forces in Lebanon and the fact that Russia was bogged down in Ukraine. Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein explain the close alignment of interests between Kyiv and Jerusalem: