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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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President Of Syria
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The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.
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Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn't be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss actually, it's the human resources loss.
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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.
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We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.
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We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call free Syrian army. That's what we said.
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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 - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.
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There is no such things as Islamic terrorism, because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term Islamic terrorism has become widespread.
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It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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