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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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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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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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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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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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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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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.
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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 most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.
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The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.
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How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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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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It is not my democracy as a person it is our democracy as a society.
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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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If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
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