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The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own 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
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The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies you have everything in Middle East region now.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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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.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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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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I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.
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Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that don't deal with terrorists as playing games. It's a different story. You're going to pay the price if you're not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.
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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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In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.
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