They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
BASHAR AL-ASSADFrom 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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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad – nothing good.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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We’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
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Let’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.
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