America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
BASHAR AL-ASSADRegarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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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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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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