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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Based Country Should Treachery
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
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Country Order President
I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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Fighting Ruthless War
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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Games Pay Playing Price Wise
Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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Country Helping Soldier
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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Accomplish Country Human More Resources
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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Issues Military Weapons
The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.
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Creating Majority Support
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Confrontation Mean Worry
The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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Fighting Self World
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
In any war, people will pay the price.
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Pay People Price War
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Country Match Military Powerful
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
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Issue Mean Talking
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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Country People Way
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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Continue Country More Support Week
The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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Administration Chemical Congress Evidence Second
Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don’t trust the government, they should go the other way.
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Government Majority Vices
Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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Achievement Country Hope Important
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Agreement Country Different Things
We would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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Country Normal People Reaction Tolerate
Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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Agendas Guarantees Leave Money
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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Giving Party Up Years
As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Morning Opposites People
We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Country Secular Secularism
This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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People Support War

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