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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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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 they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?
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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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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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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.
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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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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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We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.
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We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that's good.
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