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commander of Iran's Quds Force, speaking in 2019,
the year before his assassination by a US drone strike.
We have created, he says,
territorial continuity for the Islamic resistance by connecting Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
We'll explain what this means, this concept which Iran chooses to refer to as the resistance front.
When we talk about resistance, Primarily,
we're talking about a catch-all term that encompasses the history of,
you can say, anti-colonial struggle in the Middle East.
So in Arabic and Persian, it's basically the same word, muqawman Arabic and muqamat in Persian.
In this episode of The Global Jigsaw,
we'll try to deconstruct the so-called axis of resistance to its origins, ideology and mechanism.
This program was recorded last year.
We've updated it and bring it to your attention now as a background to the current conflict between Iran and Israel.
And with our eyes and ears on the official rhetoric,
we'll look for hints about what Iran plans to do next.