That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

We don't discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

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.

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.