First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.

I never rejected any responsibility, but that depends on the decision.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].