Q: Did Trump miscalculate Iran's strength? Syria's al-Sharaa: I don't know. Decisions of war are certainly made within a large team, and the American president is guided by that decision. I believe that the course of this war and the outcome it produced lead us to conclude that there was a great deal of futility in it, and that it did not achieve its intended results and objectives. I am very pleased that it has now stopped, and thank God that it has stopped.