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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

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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.
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Country Fighting Government
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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Achievement Country Hope Important
That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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Police Thinking World
In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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Brotherhood Long Years
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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Democracy People Self
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
There is no good war.
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Good War War
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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Eugenics Lebanon Occupation
The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Saving Ships Thinking
You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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Estimate Looks Majority Precise
The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Hate Mean People
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
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Country Rebel United States
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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Agreement Country Different Things
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Interest Mold Wanted
That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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Months Rebel Weapons
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

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