Iran‘s top general in Syria acknowledged they were “defeated very badly” with the collapse of the Assad regime, which represented a candid assessment divergent from other messages out of Tehran since the fall of the government.
Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati admitted at a mosque in Tehran last week, “I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of.”
“We were defeated and defeated very badly, we took a very big blow, and it’s been very difficult,” he added.
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His comments, which were initially published Monday by Abdi Media, a Geneva-based news site focused on Iran, represented a candid assessment of the magnitude of the loss of an ally they propped up leading Syria.
Iran came to the aid of former Syrian President Bashar Assad during the
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