Under 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.
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You 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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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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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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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it’s just lies and, let’s say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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