News - Middle East: A top military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the resistance front has succeeded in inflicting a heavy defeat on the Israeli regime, which is approaching its decline.

"In a strategic assessment, they (the Israeli regime) sustained a defeat from the axis of resistance -- from Lebanon's Hezbollah, Yemen's Ansarullah, Syria's resistance, Iraq's resistance and Palestinian resistance groups," Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said on Sunday.

He added that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to achieve any of his stated goals in the Gaza Strip.

Rahim Safavi, a former chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), emphasized that the West, led by the United States and NATO, is the main supporter of Israel and is in charge of the political, military, economic and even media command of the regime's months-long war against Gaza.

They have killed and injured more than 120,000 oppressed people across the West Asia region, he noted.

He said Netanyahu sought to occupy the Gaza Strip, eliminate the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and free Israeli captives.

However, the top commander added, "The resistance front changed the power equation both in the north and south of the occupied territories."

Rahim Safavi reiterated that Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement managed to bring the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea under its full control.

Ansarullah hit the military and commercial fleets of the US, Britain and supporters of the Zionist regime with its various missiles and drones, he explained.