The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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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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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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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don’t interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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There can be no peace without unity.
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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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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