We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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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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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Anyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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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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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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