Mustafa Zahrani, head of strategic affairs at the Institute of Political and International Studies of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said his country does not have an exit strategy from the war in Syria.
Zahrani added that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "turned his back on us (to Iran)."
"We thought the war in Syria would be short," Zahrani said in an article posted on the website of an Iranian diplomat. "We thought the enemy was weak and we could end it quickly."
As for the Russian role in Syria, Zahrani said: "It seems that the Russians have a strategy of exit from this war, their role was limited to air coverage .. In contrast we are facing a crisis in the strategy of exit from Syria."
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