A prominent academic and historian has asserted that the recent regional developments, particularly regarding Yemen and the strategic waterways of the Middle East, signify a fundamental shift in the regional balance of power, marking the inevitable decline of the US-led hegemony.
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Olsi Jazexhi, an Albanian-Canadian historian and professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia, in an interview with IQNA, analyzed the shifting geopolitical landscape, highlighting how the “Resistance Axis” has successfully dismantled the long-standing dominance of the “Anglo-Zionist” empire.
Referring to the recent military actions against Yemen, Professor Jazexhi described them as a blatant display of “desperation” within the Zionist-led axis, spearheaded by the United States.
“The formation of the Resistance Axis, initiated by the visionary efforts of the martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has created an existential challenge for the Zionist regime,” Jazexhi noted. He added that Washington is actively pressuring regional Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, to engage in a proxy conflict against the allies of the Islamic Republic of Iran to preserve its own declining influence.
Jazexhi emphasized that the most profound transformation in the regional power dynamic stems from the Resistance Axis’s control over two critical maritime chokepoints: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
Drawing a parallel to comments made by Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, the historian described these two straits as Iran’s “nuclear weapons” against the Zionist West.
“By asserting control over these two straits, Iran has effectively pushed the Anglo-Zionist empire back over a century,” Jazexhi argued. “Since 1914, when the Anglo-American empire seized Basra from the Ottomans, they have controlled the oil resources of the Islamic world. Today, by securing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has effectively turned the Persian Gulf into a ‘lake of Iran,’ while the Red Sea has similarly fallen under the protective sphere of the Resistance Axis.”
The academic warned that this development is not merely a tactical setback for the West but a strategic turning point. “The control of these two waterways is leading not just to the weakening of US hegemony, but to the eventual collapse of its empire,” he stated.
Professor Jazexhi also praised the Resistance Axis’s efforts to break the blockade on Sana’a International Airport as a symbol of unity and a necessary challenge to the “Arab-Zionist coalition.” He condemned the ongoing siege of Yemen as a “crime against humanity,” asserting that the Resistance Axis is justified in taking reciprocal actions until all sanctions and blockades against the Yemeni people are fully lifted.
In the final part of his remarks, Jazexhi addressed the possibility of expanding tensions between the regional coalitions. He warned that the situation is on a path toward further escalation, noting that the US and Israel continue to manipulate Saudi Arabia into confronting its Muslim neighbors, a policy he argues is inherently destructive to regional stability.
Jazexhi concluded by reiterating that the era of unilateral Western dominance in the Middle East has passed, and the rise of the Resistance Axis has established a new reality that global powers can no longer ignore.
