Fmr. CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell: ISIS Defeat Could ‘Hand Iraq to the Iranians’

MORELL: "Iran is, I think, the most effective fighting force inside of Iraq. They have trained, they have supplied 100,000 Shia militia. That compares to 50,000 Iraqi security forces who were not very effective. The Iranians are actually on the ground, fighting with those Shia militia. General Clapper is right. They've send a lot of heavy weaponry in. They are providing a lot of funds so they are the most effective fighting force there today."
ROSE: “So what are the implications of that?"
MORELL: "So as they push, as the Shia militia and Iranians push into Sunni areas, I think one of the things you're going to see given this Sunni/Shia tension, is you're going to see Sunni Arabs actually come over to the side of ISIL. So, from a propaganda perspective, this will be a bonanza for ISIS. However, over time, I think Iranians will be effective because they have more firepower. So there is a real risk here that over the long run we can defeat ISIS in Iraq, but we might hand Iraq to the Iranians in a diplomatic sense."
ROSE: “Wow."