At the very beginning, it was fully political. When you have these terrorists, the first part of the same plan which is political should start with stopping the smuggling of terrorists coming from abroad, stopping the logistic support, the money, all kinds of support coming to these terrorists.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

Even if you want to take the American story, they say we used chemical weapons the same day the team or the investigation team came to Syria ; is it logical ? It's not logical. Even if a country or army wanted to use such weapon, they should have waited a few days till the investigation finished its work. It's not logical, the whole story doesn't even hold together.