You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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In any war, people will pay the price.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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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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The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
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Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
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The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don’t interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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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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Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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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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