[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
BASHAR AL-ASSADEven a president makes mistakes.
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADLet’s talk… we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn’t happen. It cannot be used like this.
BASHAR AL-ASSADHow could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIn the end a lie is a lie.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it’s just lies and, let’s say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.
BASHAR AL-ASSADOur democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD