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#Raisi is the first #Iranian president to visit #Syria in over a decade. What’s changed and what are the implications for #Iran’s domestic and regional goals? Read the latest from CTP and @TheStudyofWar: (1/8)

criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-…
#Raisi’s visit signals that #Iran is aiming to leverage political and economic developments in #Syria to improve its domestic economy and advance its regional objectives. (2/8)
#Iran faces a significant economic challenge at home. The #rial recently reached 556,500 rials to one US dollar, marking a 10% reduction in value within the past month. (3/8)
The #IslamicRepublic may use the economic and political initiatives that #Raisi signed with #Assad to alleviate Iran’s economic challenges. (4/8)
#Iran may also use these initiatives to pay for and increase the Axis of Resistance's influence in the region and further entrench itself in #Syria. (5/8)
Separately, Iran may respond to renewed #Israeli airstrikes on Iranian and Iranian-backed forces in Syria by causing Iranian-backed militias to attack US forces. (6/8)
The three maps below illustrate a shift during the month of April in the areas of Syria in which Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages have targeted Iranian and Iranian-backed militants. (7/8) ImageImageImage
Lebanese Hezbollah-aligned social media accounts accused the US of tacit involvement in one of these airstrikes--a tactic that Iran and its Axis of Resistance have previously employed to justify retaliatory attacks against US forces in eastern Syria. (8/8)

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NEW | Russia conducted another Shahed-131/136 strike against Ukraine on May 4. Read the full update from CTP and @TheStudyofWar here:

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NEW | Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a drone strike against the Kremlin. Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian audience and set conditions for wider societal mobilization. Today's update from @TheStudyofWar and CTP:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
@TheStudyofWar Russian forces continued limited ground attacks near Kreminna on May 3. Image
Russian forces continued to make gains in and around Bakhmut as of May 3. Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks on the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line on May 3. ImageImage
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