The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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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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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We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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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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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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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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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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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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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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Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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