The list is beginning to resemble a museum of fallen or wavering regimes. First there was Bashar al‑Assad, long presented as a pillar of the so-called “axis of resistance,” who was forced to leave Damascus and seek refuge in Moscow. Then came Hassan Nasrallah, the emblematic figure of Hezbollah, whose tragic disappearance marked a major turning point in the regional balance.
And now Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, swept up in the turmoil of the strikes that shook Tehran. Another major actor from a political axis that, until recently, claimed to challenge the international order and that now increasingly resembles a club of former fighters.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Nicolás Maduro has also seen his power seriously shaken. Yet another name often cited among the ideological allies of the Algerian regime.
Enough to make some observers smile, as they now ironically refer to the “Algiers curse”: anyone who enters the circle of friends of Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Saïd Chengriha seems sooner or later to disappear from the political landscape.
Of course, geopolitics does not obey superstition. But the facts remain stubborn: the regimes that once formed this anti-Western bloc are gradually crumbling under the weight of internal crises, international pressure and their own contradictions.
The result is that while the world is changing at high speed, the circle of allies surrounding the Algerian regime is shrinking rapidly. And at this pace, some analysts are already joking that in Algiers only one solid alliance may soon remain: the one between Tebboune and Chengriha themselves.
Editorial team/le7tv