Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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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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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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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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