According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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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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What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it’s making advancement in that area. It never went to one area and couldn’t enter to it – that’s an indication.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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Of course, when Secretary-General is objective, he can play an important role in dealing with different officials in the United Nations in order to bring the policies of the different states – mainly Russia and the United States – toward more cooperation and more stability regarding Syria.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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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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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.
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We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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