Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.

At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.

We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.

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.