They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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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We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you’re going to have presidential elections.
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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.
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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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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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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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There is no good war.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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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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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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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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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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