World: Bashar al-Assad: Western intervention in Syria “will burn the whole region”
- Any problem in Syria will burn the whole region. If the plan is to divide Syria, that is to divide the whole region.
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad • Discussing the situation in Syria, and in the process discouraging Western intervention in the region. While admitting that he expected pressure from the West, he tried in the process to paint a line between his country and other Arab Spring countries. “Syria is different in every respect from Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen. The history is different. The politics is different,” he noted. Think he’s right? source