Bashar al-Assad, President al-Assad Interview with Foreign Affairs Magazine (27 January 2015)
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The United States in particular and the West in general are in no position to talk about human rights. They are responsible for most of the killings in the region, especially the United States after getting into Iraq, and the UK after invading Libya, and the situation in Yemen, and what happened in Egypt in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism in Tunisia. All these problems happened because of the United States. They were the first ones to trample international law and Security Council resolutions, not us.

— Bashar al-Assad on Human rights

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The United States in particular and the West in general are in no position to talk about human rights. They are responsible for most of the killings in the region, especially the United States after getting into Iraq, and the UK after invading Libya, and the situation in Yemen, and what happened in Egypt in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism in Tunisia. All these problems happened because of the United States. They were the first ones to trample international law and Security Council resolutions, not us." in the context of "Bashar al-Assad, President al-Assad Interview with Foreign Affairs Magazine (27 January 2015)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bashar al-Assad

About Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September, 1965) is a Syrian politician who was the country's president from 2000 to 2024. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who was the president of Syria from 1971 to 2000.