It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world.
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Anyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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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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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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