As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

When you talk about humanitarian, it doesn't only mean to offer the people the help, the food, their necessary needs for their life. The first thing, if you ask the Syrian refugees, for example, the first thing they want is to go back to their country.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.