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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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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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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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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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.
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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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First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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