We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.
ADEL AL-JUBEIRLet’s not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls.
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We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment.
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And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.
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It’s going to be bad for the region. Iran has to decide whether it wants a revolution or a nation-state.
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We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly
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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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Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes.
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Then I tell them: Don’t keep attacking us as you have done for the last years.
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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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I don’t think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad
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The Russians say their objective is to defeat Daesh, too.
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Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
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That would be a different story. But I don’t think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
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Today it’s a little bit more complicated.
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Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?
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Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia.
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Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system.
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We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
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We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism.
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Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism.
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If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones.” [Bashar] Assad’s people rebelled.
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All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.
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I don’t believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations
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The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East.
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We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
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But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them.
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