But I don’t believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.
ADEL AL-JUBEIRThe Iranians know what they need to do in order to become a responsible member of the international community and in order to become a good neighbor, and it’s really up to them to change their behavior.
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To write a constitution and to open the way for elections.
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Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?
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We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly
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Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism.
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Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
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All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.
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Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
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Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state.
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We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground.
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Just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.
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We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.
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And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.
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There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group.
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Every society decides what its laws are, and it’s the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
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We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria.
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