When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it’s just lies and, let’s say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.
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The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it’s a very primitive gas. So, it’s not something complicated.
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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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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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I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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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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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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