Name: 敘利亞總統巴沙爾-阿薩德查理-羅斯訪談全文--2013年9月9日。 (Syrian President Bashar al Assad Charlie Rose Interview full - September 9, 2013)
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Mr. President thank you very much for this opportunity to talk to you at a very important moment

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because the President of the United States

as you know an important conversation is taking place

in Washington and important things are happening here in your country.

As long as the United States doesn’t obey the international law

and trample over the Charter of the United Nations we have to worry

that any administration – not only this one – would do anything.

According to the lies that we’ve been hearing for the last two weeks

from high-ranking officials in the US administration

We’ve been living in difficult circumstances for the last two years and a half,

and we prepare ourselves for every possibility.

But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better;

it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.

Worse because of the repercussions because nobody can tell

you the repercussions of the first strike.

We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria.

This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked,

if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions

somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.

Are you suggesting that if in fact there is a strike;

there will be repercussions against the United States from your friends

in other countries like Iran or Hezbollah or others?

As I said, this may take different forms: direct and indirect.

Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments.

Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread

of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.

Have you had conversations with Russia, with Iran or with Hezbollah about how to retaliate?

We don’t discuss this issue as a government, but we discuss the repercussions,

which is more important because sometimes repercussions

could be more destroying than the strike itself.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria;

sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

But some have suggested that it might tip the balance in the favor

of the rebels and lead to the overthrow of your government.

Exactly.  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.

This is about chemical warfare.  Let’s talk about that.

Do you approve of the use of chemical warfare?

Do you think that it is an appropriate tool of war, to use chemicals?

We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.

So you’re against the use of chemical warfare?

Yes, not only me. 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.

But you’re not a signatory to the chemical warfare agreement.

Because Israel has WMD, and it has to sign, and Israel is occupying our land,

so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria,

Do you consider chemical warfare equivalent to nuclear warfare?

I don’t know. We haven’t tried either.

But you know, you’re a head of state, and you understand

the consequences of weapons that don’t discriminate.

Technically, they’re not the same.  But morally, it’s the same.

They are the same, but at the end, killing is killing.

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or

hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

Then why do you have such a stockpile of chemical weapons?

We don’t discuss this issue in public because

and we never said that we don’t have it.

It’s a Syrian issue; it’s a military issue

This is from the New York Times this morning:

of chemical weapons with help from the Soviet Union

and Iran as well as Western European suppliers,

and even a handful of American companies.

According to American diplomatic cables and declassified

intelligence records, you have amassed one

of the largest supplies of chemical weapons in the world.

but to depend on what media says is nonsense,

or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence

is nonsense and that was proven when they

invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said “Iraq has stockpiles of WMD”

and it was proven after the invasion that this was false;

So, we can’t depend on what one magazine wrote.

You accept that the world believes you do

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