This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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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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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
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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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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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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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When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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