You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAlmost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
More Bashar al-Assad Quotes
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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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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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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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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We’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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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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In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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