Bashir Assad Quotes

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

The Iranians and the Syrians, sipping their coffee in their cafes discussing politics, want to fight the Israelis to the last Lebanese and the last Palestinian.

There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.

Hezbollah poses a great threat to the world - and particularly to our great ally, Israel.

When you look at the Lebanon-Syria border, you see a porous border despite the fact that you have a U.N. Security Council decision that speaks of an embargo on weapons transfers to Hezbollah.

Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which, of course, carries the risk of a military showdown.

I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government, unlike me, fiercely opposed.

The last thing Israel is interested in is an escalation or some military action against Iran.

Hezbollah is in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, so people should not focus on Hezbollah that it's a Lebanese entity only, but it's something regional.

No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.

The European Union needs a comprehensive, continent-wise, transnational counter-terrorism center that has the authority to track threats across borders.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

It is essential for Israel's safety and ours that we do everything we can to support our staunchest ally at all times.

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

In terms of Iran and in terms of Saudi Arabia, of course they hate each other. That's no great secret. But John Kerry, who is I think doing a very good job, has tried to at least get these people in the room together because both of them are being threatened by ISIS.