I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADLet’s talk… we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn’t happen. It cannot be used like this.
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It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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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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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the Syrian, not any other one, not American, neither French, nor anyone in the world. I’m President to help the Syrian people.
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Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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It’s very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and others, you’ll have no problem in Syria. It will be solved easily.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it’s making advancement in that area. It never went to one area and couldn’t enter to it – that’s an indication.
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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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