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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.

Bashar al-Assad

It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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Blame Mistake Others
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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Crazy Prevent Spring War
The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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Occupy People Years
At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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End Killing Massacring
We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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Country Government Issues
You want me to believe American evidence and don’t want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
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Believe Evidence Reality
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Fighting War Years
We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
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Pockets Political Scorpions
We’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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Mean Stupid War
We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Feet Shooting Use
Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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Agreement Country Occupy
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Confrontation Mean Worry
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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Country Lines Religious
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Groups People Support
No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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Crazy Government People

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