Arabic → English transcript

It is doing everything it can to help Syria so that it becomes safe, stable,

and thriving, God willing.

There have been many questions about who is providing you with support.

Iran says it is Israel, and the United States. Some people say it is Turkey.

Who is actually providing it?

By God, it is definitely neither Turkey nor Israel. It is Iran.

Iran, when it entered Iraq, it went in alongside the Americans,

while it calls them the Great Satan,

and when it came to Syria to save the regime and could not save it,

Qasem Soleimani himself went to Putin

and brought him to continue his bombing of children and women,

and what Soleimani failed to do, Putin did.

So I say these claims are not true and not accurate.

We organize ourselves by ourselves, we manage the internal situation,

and we respect the particular concerns of some neighboring countries like Turkey.

It has its national security tied in one way or another to what is

happening in Syria,

because it is a border country. As for Iran, it is far away, there is no bordering

state, but it interferes in Syria in an improper way. Improper, I mean.

So I say we rely on ourselves on our own, and this is a well- known,

widely known fact, even most of what we have fought with we either took by

force from the regime,

then we rehabilitated it and used it again,

otherwise where would we get tanks from?

These armored vehicles and tracked vehicles are all, so to speak,

the property of the regime,

most of our weapons were from the regime’s own warehouses. But sometimes when a side

loses a battle, it does not want

to justify or analyze its loss in a logical and correct way,

so it resorts to direct accusations.

And I believe that Iran must reconsider its relationship with the Syrian interior,

and that it should side with the people and respect their choices and decisions,

and not go and kill or help the regime kill the people and displace its inhabitants

in return for keeping some paltry interests.

It can establish strategic relations with Syria in a correct and safe way,

just like all countries

establish these relations,

without attacking this people, and sending militias that came from all

corners of the earth,

from Afghanistan and from Pakistan, Zainabiyoun and Fatemiyoun,

and Hezbollah and Iraqi Hezbollah and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization and so on,

all of them came here, fighting whom?

They are fighting these people who were displaced and migrated.

I believe that this matter

means that in the coming days, Syria will enter a new era, and it will have,

and today a new history is being written for Syria,

not only for Syria but for the entire region,

and it will be on the basis of respecting everyone’s mutual interests,

and Syria’s interests will be the first

and above everyone’s, God willing. I mean, certainly

Hama, as an inner feeling,

I felt as if its wound is being cleansed now, a forty- year wound being

cleansed now. And also our feeling, what pleased me most in

this battle was when I saw people returning to their homes,

because the crisis of displacement and refuge and the punishment

that People are being driven from their home, which is a really harsh punishment.