"This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies."

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We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.

— Bashar al-Assad