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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.

Bashar al-Assad

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Citizens Country Occupy Today
It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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Dangerous Get Morning Up
We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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Stability War Winning
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.
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Border Country Proposition Successful
I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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Believe Couple Qatar
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Army Country Government
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
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Culture Democracy Reality
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Different Government People
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Fighting Peace Terror
The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Hate Mean People
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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Culture Democracy Different
We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
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Pockets Political Scorpions

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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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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