We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThat’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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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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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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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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In the end a lie is a lie.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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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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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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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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Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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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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Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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