Special report | The resistance axis?
Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia
Its allies are impoverished
VISITORS TO BEIRUT last year noticed an odd diptych on the drive from the airport. Head north along Imam Khomeini avenue and one passed billboards to Qassem Suleimani, an Iranian general assassinated by America in January 2020. Yet just a kilometre farther on his gaunt visage gave way to a jowly image of Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s Founding Fathers.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Pyrrhic victory”
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