If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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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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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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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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They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
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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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First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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[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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We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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