Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You're right about this. It's going to be direct support.
Bashar al-AssadThat's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
Bashar al-AssadWe don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
Bashar al-AssadThese people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.
Bashar al-Assad