"Sounds like someone is sh*t scared to me..."
And, our answer should be that we'd be happy to take the info as he boards an airplane in Damascus for a one-way trip to Tehran - an airplane we will supply (wink, wink, nod, nod).
He's trying to buy time, that's all he's doing.
He will now be squeezed between Iraq and Lebanon and his paymaster, Iran is about to become a very harsh master over him, and he knows it.