When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

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.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

There can be no peace without unity.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.