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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI’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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’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-ASSADThey 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADUnder Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
BASHAR AL-ASSADSyria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
BASHAR AL-ASSADRevolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
BASHAR AL-ASSADSince its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
BASHAR AL-ASSADI don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADTo have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
BASHAR AL-ASSADI am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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