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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn the end a lie is a lie.
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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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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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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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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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People 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.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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I 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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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Let’s presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.
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