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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt 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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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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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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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I’m President to help the Syrian people.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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