It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
BASHAR AL-ASSADHezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that’s good.
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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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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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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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I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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