Iran FM: Syria’s Assad complained of army’s incompetence 

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that ousted Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad had complained about the state of his own army during a recent meeting in the capital Damascus days before the regime’s fall.

Araghchi said in a live interview on state television on Sunday night that the Syrian that the Iranian security and intelligence apparatus were fully aware of the armed groups’ acts in Idlib and other areas and transferred all relevant information to the Syrian government and army.

“If the Syrian army had resisted, even Aleppo would not have fallen,” he added, explaining that Al-Assad was “surprised and complained about the state of his own army” during a recent meeting in Damascus.

“What was surprising was the inability of the Syrian army to confront the movement of the armed groups, and the second was the speed of the movements,” he added.

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