We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhat 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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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
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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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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you’re going to have presidential elections.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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