[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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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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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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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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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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When you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
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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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