It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou want me to believe American evidence and don’t want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
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I 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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Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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They delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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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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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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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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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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