[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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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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Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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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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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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