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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
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Fighting Peace Terror
When people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.
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Assure Bais Country Understand
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
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Culture Democracy Reality
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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Games Pay Playing Price Wise
Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Attitude Matter States
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
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
We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Country Secular Secularism
To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Government Opposition Some Within
We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
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Army Majority Minorities
The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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Countries Country Example Substitute World
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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East Geographical Middle Political
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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Fighting Ruthless War

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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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