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Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

Bashar al-Assad

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
We would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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Country Normal People Reaction Tolerate
Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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Army Land War
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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Interest Mold Wanted
When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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Country Matter Religion
We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Constitution Responsibility Talking
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Believe Lebanon Real
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Diversity Fabric Social
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
In any war, people will pay the price.
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Pay People Price War
That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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Cooperation Country Kind
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Confrontation Mean Worry
You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Long War Winning

Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

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Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

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