Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
Bashar al-AssadWe 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.
Bashar al-AssadI will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
Bashar al-AssadJohn Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels control. This reminds me - what Kerry said - about the big lie that Collin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war. He said "this is our evidence."
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