[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAnd let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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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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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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