NOTE: I’m taking some time off until January… so this will be the year’s last newsletter! 💫
THE هفت/SEVEN THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK:
۱/1 Bye-bye, Assad—Tehran’s regional ally
On December 8, the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad—the Islamic Republic’s top ally in the region—fell after rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized the capital, Damascu…