Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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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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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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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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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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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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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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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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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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