When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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.
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To 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.
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Syria 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.
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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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If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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There is no such things as “Islamic terrorism,” because terrorism differs from Islam. There’s just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term “Islamic terrorism” has become widespread.
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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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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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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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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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