On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADOn the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
BASHAR AL-ASSADPeople do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe feel pain for every Syrian victim.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThat’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
BASHAR AL-ASSADToday, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThat the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
BASHAR AL-ASSADEvery country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIsrael 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIts not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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