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Amman- Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Hayassat

What was revealed in the "Al Arabiya" leaks between Bashar Al-Assad and Luna Al-Shibl is not merely a personal conversation between a president and a former presenter, but a new document of disgrace added to a long record of depravity with which this regime has ruled a great country named Syria.

We have seen with our own eyes how a country that gave birth to poets, thinkers, and freedom fighters was governed by a primitive, sick mentality, detached from any sense of patriotism or ethics.

This disgusting and repulsive scene does not surprise those who have been burned by this regime's fire, who have lost sons under torture, whose children were buried under rubble, or who lived under siege until they ate cat meat in Ghouta, Homs, and Daraa. Those who know the Syrian people's pain understand that what was leaked today is not a private scandal, but a mirror of a regime in moral, humanitarian, and political crisis.

While these leaks may seem confined to Syria, they reflect a recurring model of some current Arab regimes that have turned governance into a personal farm and their peoples into fuel for the ruler's instincts.

Yes, every person has a private life. But when "privacy" comes at the expense of an entire people's blood, it transforms into a crime, not a right. While cities were being bombed, hospitals destroyed, and camps filled with refugees, the head of the regime was toying with people's lives as if watching a film whose outcome does not concern him.

The danger in these leaks is that they revealed what was managed behind the scenes in the name of defiance and resistance, and how the axis of resistance turned into an axis of tyranny, corruption, and depravity. From Tehran to the suburbs to Damascus, the same lie repeats: slogans of steadfastness while peoples are crushed under the feet of oppressors.

The most horrific aspect is not what Assad said, but what was done by all those who defended him, funded him, and justified his crimes. These are accomplices in Syrian blood, no matter how they try to hide behind sectarian slogans or political calculations. History will spare no one, because Syrian memory will not be erased—not by leaks, nor by justifications.

These recordings have given us a glimpse into the "dark palaces" that were running a country named Syria as if it were a family farm. Yet, at the same time, they have given us additional proof that tyrants fall not only through revolutions, but also through moral exposure before their own people.

Syria does not deserve this depravity, nor does its people deserve to be reduced to scandalous headlines. But perhaps, after all these years of bloodshed, it has become clear that Assad's downfall will not only be political, but a resounding moral collapse, its echoes reverberating from Ghouta to Aleppo to every home that has lost its humanity and dignity.