We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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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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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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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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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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Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that’s good.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it’s a very primitive gas. So, it’s not something complicated.
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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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