Middle East: When US, and President Donald Trump personally, about a year ago, made the decision to assassinate Hajj Qassem Soleimani and his companion, Hajj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, with orders from Benjamin Netanyahu, the stated goal (the false claim) was to prevent a preemptive maneuver planned by Hajj Qassem to target US bases, and the protection of US national security.

In practice, the actual goal of this assassination was to stop the escalation of the strength of the axis of resistance and its capabilities, by removing the commander of the Quds Force and the operational director of the axis’s maneuver against US, the Zionists and Daesh.

Today, a year after the assassination, and because of it, the possibility of achieving the first (declared) goal encreased, which is targeting US bases in the region, leading to achieve US national security, by taking it out by force and directing a blow to its strategy, which aimed at fragmenting the countries of the axis of resistance and pushing them to surrender to the movement of normalization with "Israel".

On the other hand, the words of the National Security Adviser in the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden that Iran had become stronger after the assassination of Soleimani were sufficient to demonstrate the failure of the assassination goal to stop the escalation of the capabilities of the axis of resistance. The recent annual strategic assessment issued by the Israeli National Security Research Institute, which contained conclusions and recommendations regarding the policies that must be followed during the year 2021, warned of "deterioration in the Israeli national security balance," which took place last year, because of the continuing erosion of the Israeli qualitative advantage vis-à-vis Iran.

After this assassination, everyone can discover that the strength and capabilities of the axis of resistance have escalated more and more, and that the strengths of its parties and factions have increased in such a way that the Americans and the Zionists no longer have the ability to match this path and control its developments.

In Yemen, the areas liberated by the Army and Popular Committees are increasing, and their qualitative capabilities are doubling more shockingly for the coalition of aggression and its supporters, including ballistic missiles, drones and air defense systems, which began to hit the latest Chinese and US aircraft. Today, Yemen has become a suitable and effective strategic focal point on the Red Sea to target the depth of the occupied territories in Palestine or to target the enemy's maritime movement towards the east and the Gulf.

In occupied Palestine, and specifically in Gaza, most of the resistance factions participated in a comprehensive maneuver that surprised "Israel" and considered it exceptional and dangerous, as new models of specific missile capabilities and drones were used, as well as the tactics of confrontation. These factions, it seems, are on the road to unification in the national political orientation and vision as well.

In Lebanon, "Israel" is still in the strategy of caution “standing on leg and half", and the rockets of the resistance, as recognized by the Israelis, have doubled in the level of accuracy, effectiveness and numbers, in a way that there is no longer any possibility to control them, and the strategic report of the enemy touched on all seriousness and sensitivity to these capabilities.

Also in Iraq, it seems that US military units are unable to return to their previous normal movement, while they live in tension and the mobilization have continued since the assassination, ain addition to the fragile security of the embassy,   which is always exposed to dangerous targets.

Iran today, a year after the assassination, is steadfast in its positions more and more. It returned the signed nuclear agreement, by raising the uranium enrichment and relaunching their nuclear program. Regarding the four weapons that it has, on land, air, sea and air defense, a wide and unprecedented maneuver is being implemented by the drones including all types and models of this weapon that are most effective in modern warfare.

In the end, what is happening inside the US in terms of the "Trump supporters" attack on the Congress building and the bullying behavior of President Trump and his supporters, which angered the Republicans before the Democrats, and brought shame and mockery to the history of the United States of America and its democracy, is sufficient to indicate that the decision of the assassination was taken by the same president who arbitrarily withdrew from the nuclear agreement, and he himself who today brought this shame to the US, and he himself.

Translated from Al-Mayadeen