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This 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-Assad

We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Constitution Responsibility Talking
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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Blood Soil Weapons
The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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Believe Reality War
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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Enemy Hell People
My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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Country Looks Should
When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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Government Mean Two
And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Completely Country Same Style
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People
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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Government Party Presidential
Actually, 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.
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Country Institution People State Video YouTube
For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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Country Political Thinking
At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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End Killing Massacring
If 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.
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Groups Rebel Warfare
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Country Match Military Powerful
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Country Inception Threat
That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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Police Thinking World

This 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 ?

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This 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 ?

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