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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Are Iran and Russia losing their grip on the Middle East?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The past 12 months have seen stunning reverses for both Russia and for Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ in the Middle East. Rebels humiliated Putin in Syria and Israel devastated Iranian proxies such has Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon – albeit it at appalling human cost. Is the region finally turning a corner? Does the ceasefire really mean Israel has “won”? Could the Iranian regime fall? RUSI fellow Jason Pack of the Disorder podcast explains connects the threads of a crucial period for the region.  • Support us on Patreon for early episodes and more. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit.   www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome back to The Bunker, your daily news and politics update.

1:13.6

I'm Andrew Harrison.

1:15.3

It's been a year of awe-inspiring upheaval and horrific violence in the Middle East.

1:20.2

In Syria, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell with astonishing suddenness,

1:24.3

a major offensive by Hayat, Tahrir al-Sham, bringing to an end the tyrant's 13-year-long

1:29.6

campaign of terror and atrocity against his own people. The war, aided and abetted by Russia,

1:35.5

had killed half a million people and generated a refugee crisis that has destabilized Europe.

1:40.5

In Israel, Netanyahu's overwhelming retaliation against Hamas for the October

1:45.6

the seventh atrocities, with its appalling cost in civilian lives, has come at least to a temporary

1:51.2

end, with January ceasefire and the exchange of prisoners and hostages. But Hamas is defiant,

1:56.2

and the Israeli right is not happy. Outside the region, Assad's sponsor, Russia is humiliated. Iran, which exports

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