From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAnyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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They 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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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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When 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.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
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