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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.

Bashar al-Assad

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Different Government People
They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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People Reality Worry
According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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Men People School
If it’s not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn’t have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn’t make national war.
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Advance Army Family National Support
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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Cooperation Country Mean
Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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Country Helping Soldier
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Agendas Political Terrorism
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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Barack Evidence Transparent
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Decision People Political
Even a president makes mistakes.
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Making Mistake President
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
In 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.
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Book Titles United States
Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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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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Long War Winning
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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East Middle New Next Something Week

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