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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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Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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Criminal Mean Thieves
At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Chemicals Ends Weapons
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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Occupation People Problem
Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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Country Credible Tank
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
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Country Rebel United States
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Agendas Political Terrorism
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.
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Abroad Border Country Smuggle Terrorist
We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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Evidence Team United States
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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Country Match Military Powerful
The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Army People Robots
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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East Government Middle Proposed
If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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Country Terrorist Winning
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
We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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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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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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