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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.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
Criticize
Worry
Tell
Reality
People
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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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Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Peace in Syria is not only our priority it's a Middle Eastern priority, and when the Middle East is stable, the rest of the world is stable, because the Middle East is the heart of the world geographically and geopolitically, and Syria is the heart of the Middle East geographically and geopolitically.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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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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Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.
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The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don't interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
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Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel it should be comprehensive.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.
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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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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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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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Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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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.
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If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.
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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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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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