Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may succeed in crushing the two-year-old violent uprising against his rule with the support of Iran and Hezbollah

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may succeed in crushing the two-year-old violent uprising against his rule with the support of Iran and Hezbollah, the Zionist intelligence minister expressed on Monday.

Though the assessment was quickly disavowed by others in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government, it reflected the difficulties facing the Zionist entity and Western countries in predicting Syria's destiny and weighing intervention.

"It might be the case that, at the end of the day, Assad might get the upper hand," Yuval Steinitz, minister for international affairs, strategy and intelligence, told a meeting of the Foreign Press Association.

And I think that this is possible and I thought that this is possible already a long time ago."

Steinitz, who is not a member of the Zionist security cabinet but does have access to intelligence updates as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ear, said Assad's government "might not just survive but even regain territories" from the opposition armed groups.

"In such time of conflict, if the opposition is not making any progress, and the regime manages to survive and to get very strong support from other countries, namely Iran and Hezbollah… in the end it might just survive," he said.

He declined to comment further on a possible President Assad victory, arguing that his entity’s policy is not to meddle publicly in Syria.

However, reports from the ground revealed that the Zionist entity has set up many field hospitals to treat the wounded of the so-called ‘free Syrian army’ and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants.

Online video reports also showed Zionist ammunition stored inside bunkers and tunnels of militiamen who were occupying the Syrian border city of al-Qusayr for more than two years, before the Syrian army liberated the area last week and restored security in the place.

Fearing of any confrontation with the Syrian Arab army, the Zionist minister stepped up warnings to Damascus over any attempt to draw its entity into a confrontation.

"I would suggest to Syria, to the Assad regime: be very careful not to allow any provocation on the Golan Heights or against the State of Israel," Steinitz said.

Last week, terrorist takfirist militiamen briefly seized Quneitra crossing on the border between Syria and the Occupied Palestine, prompting fierce clashes with government troops in a development which caused great concern in the enemy entity.