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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,

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We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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Issues Military Weapons
Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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Support Use World
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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Army Desperate Reality Situations
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Groups People Support
I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Afford Making Mistake
This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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Believe Reality Successful
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Country Inception Threat
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Agreement Country Different Things
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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Country Political Thinking
It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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Country Fighting Government
If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
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Army Rebel Support
Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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Country Helping Soldier
We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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Different Else Somewhere Talking
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
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Administration Expectations President

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