In an exclusive interview for
teleSUR, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, claimed that the
United States and its allies obstructed an investigation by the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on
chemical attacks in Syria. As he said:
We
have asked the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW) to send specialized missions to investigate what happened. And
every time, the United States obstructed these investigations or
prevented sending such missions in order to carry out such
investigations. This is what happened last week when we called for
investigations over the alleged use of chemical weapons in the town
of Khan Sheikhoun. The United States and its allies prevented OPCW
from taking that decision. As far as we are concerned, we still
insist on an investigation, and we and our Russian and Iranian allies
are trying to persuade OPCW to send a team to investigate what
happened, because if it doesn’t, the United States might repeat the
same charade by fabricating the use of false chemical weapons in
another place in Syria in order to justify military intervention in
support of the terrorists. On the other hand, we continue to fight
the terrorists, because we know that the objective of all these
American and Western allegations concerning chemical weapons is to
support terrorists in Syria. That’s why we will continue to fight
these terrorists.
When asked about US claims that
the Syrian government is the one who used chemical weapons, he
referred to the lies about Saddam Hussein having chemical, nuclear,
and other weapons that led to the US invasion in Iraq:
Colin
Powell [in 2003] showed the world in the United Nations what he
claimed to be the evidence which proves that President Saddam Hussein
possessed chemical, nuclear, and other weapons. However, when the
American forces invaded Iraq, it was proven that all he said was a
lie. Powell himself admitted that the American intelligence agencies
deceived him with that false evidence. That wasn’t the first nor
will it be the last time.
He
also spoke about Israel's double role against Syria:
...
first, by direct aggression, particularly by using
warplanes, artillery, or missiles against Syrian Army positions.
Second, it is supporting terrorists in two ways: first by providing
direct support in the form of weapons, and second by providing
logistic support, i.e. allowing them to conduct military exercises in
the areas it controls. It also provides them with medical assistance
in its hospitals. These are not mere claims or assumptions. They are
facts, verified and published on the internet which you can easily
access as proven evidence of the Israeli role in support of the
terrorists in Syria.
He
claimed that Trump is essentially another puppet of the US deep
state:
The
American President has no policies. There are policies drawn by the
American institutions which control the American regime which are the
intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms and oil companies,
and financial institutions, in addition to some other lobbies which
influence American decision-making. The American President merely
implements these policies, and the evidence is that when Trump tried
to move on a different track, during and after his election campaign,
he couldn’t. He came under a ferocious attack. As we have seen in
the past few week, he changed his rhetoric completely and subjected
himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American
regime. That’s why it is unrealistic and a complete waste of time
to make an assessment of the American President’s foreign policy,
for he might say something; but he ultimately does what these
institutions dictate to him. This is not new. This has been ongoing
American policy for decades.
He also referred to the term
"moderate rebels" that the media in the West are using for
various terrorist groups. As he explained:
[For
the Western and American media] a moderate terrorist is that who
carries out acts of beheading and slaughter but without carrying
al-Qaeda flag, or without saying “Allah Akbar,” while an
extremist terrorist is that who carries the flag and says Allah Akbar
when carrying out acts of beheading and slaughter. This is the only
difference. For the United States, all those who serve its political
agenda against other states are classified as moderate opposition and
not as extremist and terrorist, even if they commit the worst acts of
terrorism.
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interview:
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