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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADOpposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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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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If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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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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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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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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