We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

In any war, people will pay the price.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.