We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
ADEL AL-JUBEIRWhat we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development.
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It’s going to be bad for the region. Iran has to decide whether it wants a revolution or a nation-state.
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I don’t think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad
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There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group.
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Just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.
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It is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia.
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Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state.
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Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes.
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But I don’t believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.
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Twenty million Russians are Muslims.
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And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.
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He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him.
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We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us
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The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.
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We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism.
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Let’s not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls.
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We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons
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The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted.
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We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria.
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We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.
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If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones.” [Bashar] Assad’s people rebelled.
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We don’t tolerate terrorism.
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Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?
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That has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement.
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We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.
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The Iranians should just stay away from us.
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We have a legal system, and we have a penal code.
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