[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt 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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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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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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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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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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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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Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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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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We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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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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With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.
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