We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
BASHAR AL-ASSADSimply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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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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In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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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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For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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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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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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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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If it’s not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn’t have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn’t make national war.
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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 only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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