At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
More Bashar al-Assad Quotes
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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[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.
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In any war, people will pay the price.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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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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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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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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