Hezbollah: Weakened... Defeated and in retreat!

Bloomberg, here

"....A decline in support for Iran’s clients may facilitate President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy in two ways: by giving Syria an incentive to move closer to the U.S., and by encouraging American allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt to push Hamas (NOT happening) toward a unity government with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that would hold peace talks with Israel. ....

The turmoil in Iran may help the U.S. improve relations with Syria, which has a defense cooperation agreement with Iran and has been a conduit for Iranian arms to Hezbollah, said Josh Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Iran’s Lebanese protégé, Hezbollah, has been weakened by a June 7 election defeat at the hands of the country’s pro-Western coalition. Shiite religious parties in Iraq also lost support in January’s local elections, although the winner of that vote, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Dawa party, is also Shiite- dominated and has ties with Iran. ....."