The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf 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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The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.
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We 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.
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You 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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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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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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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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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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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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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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