Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world.
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We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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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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Actually, he gave false evidence [of chemical weapons]. In this case,[John] Kerry didn’t even present any evidence. He talked “we have evidence” and he didn’t present anything. Not yet, nothing so far ; not a single shred of evidence.
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