Tom Tugendhat stated: “Young members of the IRGC are saying two things. One, the old guard are corrupt and incompetent. That’s why Hezbollah has been hung out to dry and defeated. That’s why old allies like Assad have fallen … The second thing they’re saying is that they’re hearing rumors … that the ayatollah, and the government in Tehran, wants to talk to the Americans to try and find a way out of this and perhaps hang on.”

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  The Decline of Iran's Proxy Network - AGSI - Arab Gulf States Institute

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• Hezbollah entity
• Tehran location
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps entity
• Assad regime entity