[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Regarding 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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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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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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They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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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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Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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