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People are saying, Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed. It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?
Adel al-Jubeir
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Adel al-Jubeir
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 1
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You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.
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As long as Iran's aggressive policies continue, it's going to be bad for the region. Iran has to decide whether it wants a revolution or a nation-state.
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Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
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Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.
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We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.
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We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
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We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.
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We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us, then I tell them: Don't keep attacking us as you have done for the last years.
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Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
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We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.
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We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.
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We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
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What we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development. But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them. The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.
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The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.
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Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
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If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process.
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We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.
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The Iranians know what they need to do in order to become a responsible member of the international community and in order to become a good neighbor, and it's really up to them to change their behavior.
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Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
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It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?
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