Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
Bashar Hafez al-AssadLevantine pronunciation: ; born 11 September 1965) is the President of Syria, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Ba'ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party's branch in Syria. On 10 July 2000, he was elected president succeeding Hafez al-Assad, his father, who had led Syria for 30 years and died in office a month prior. In both the Syrian presidential election, 2000 and subsequent 2007 election, Bashar Assad received votes in his...
NationalitySyrian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 September 1965
CityDamascus, Syria
CountrySyrian Arab Republic
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.
Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
In any war, people will pay the price.
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
Hizbullah is not a militia.