Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
BASHAR AL-ASSADNobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThis is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThat’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
BASHAR AL-ASSADRussia 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADActually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe 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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADSomething that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThey need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThey delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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