Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.

Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

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

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.