War was imposed on Ayatollah Khamenei by the Zionists and Western imperialists, who wanted Iran to submit and kneel. Under his wise and visionary leadership, alongside brave commanders who were themselves martyred, Iran resisted.
In 2011, a war was poured into Syria with money and weapons from the West, the Gulf, and the Zionist entity. Its object was to bring down Damascus and cut the Resistance in half.
He saw the stakes at once. The land corridor from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon was the lifeline of the Resistance Front, and if Damascus fell, Palestine would be left alone.
Defenders of the Shrine
He received the families of the fallen as his own.
Defenders of the Shrine
He committed Iran to the defense of Damascus and of the shrine of Sayyida Zainab, peace be upon her.
Iranian advisers and volunteers from across the region fought and died there. Iran honors them as the defenders of the shrine, and he received their families as his own.
Damascus stood, and the corridor stayed open. Weapons, training, and money kept moving to Lebanon and to Palestine, and the Resistance entered the following decade stronger than it had entered this one.
The War for the Corridor
Keeping the lifeline open, year by year.
2011
The war is poured in
Money, weapons, and tens of thousands of foreign fighters flowed into Syria from the West, the Gulf, and the Zionist entity. Damascus was expected to fall within months.
2012-2013
The advisers arrive
He sent Iranian commanders and advisers, and the defense of the shrine of Sayyida Zainab, peace be upon her, drew volunteers from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Lebanon.
2013-2015
Hezbollah crosses
The resistance of Lebanon entered the war at Qusayr, and the tide began to turn. The corridor held.
2015-2017
Daesh broken in Syria
The same takfiri wave that struck Iraq was broken in Syria. Palmyra, Aleppo, and Deir ez-Zor returned, and the road from Tehran to Beirut stayed open.
The martyrs
The defenders of the shrine
Thousands of defenders of the shrine were martyred in Syria. He prayed over their coffins, visited their families, and named their path the path of Karbala.
In Pictures
The shrine defended, the families honored.
With the families of the martyrsMourning the martyred defendersThe commanders of the corridorWith Bashar al-Assad, 2010, before the warThe corridor still open, 2024
