Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said on Friday he was not optimistic about the future of Syria,Reuters reported.
“I don’t know whether or not Syria can be put back together again,” Brennan told the annual Aspen Security Forum. His comments were a rare public acknowledgement by a top U.S. official that Syria may not survive a five-year war in its current state.
It is worthy to remind that the CIA director was exclusively interviewed by Al Arabiya News Channel’s in Washington last month. He spoke about the developments in the Middle East and Iran’s practices in Syria.
Brennan said he is not “convinced at all that the Iranian Gen. Soleimani is trying to take those sectarian tensions down” as he “has been taking a leading role for Iran and Quds Brigade inside Iraq , Syria and other areas.”
