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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

Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Accept Cooperation Government
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
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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Condition Cooperate Day Obstacle Single
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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Army Institution Jobs War
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.
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Country Support Years
Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Fighting People Something Terrorist
[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
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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East Forever Middle Problem
Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Attitude Matter States
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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Country Lines Religious
I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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Fighting Ruthless War
Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said “we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want.” Of course, you just ignore that.
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Agendas Guarantees Leave Money
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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Culture Democracy Different
How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel.
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Everything Fear Happy Powerful
We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad – nothing good.
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Country Looks Rebel
They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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People Reality Worry
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Country Decision President
There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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Rebel Tunnels Twelve
As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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East Government Middle Proposed
At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Chemicals Ends Weapons
We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn’t interfere in other countries around the world, and of course to stop supporting terrorists in Syria.
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Country Law Thinking
Simply 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.
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Illusion Palaces Vision
Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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Goal Growth Hurt
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Fighting Peace Terror
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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Killing Language War
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Anyone People Regard 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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