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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn 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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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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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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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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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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