{"id":3504,"date":"2018-05-12T23:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2018-05-12T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:08:24","slug":"chemical-attack-accusations-are-fake-assad-tells-kathimerini-exclusive-interview-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/chemical-attack-accusations-are-fake-assad-tells-kathimerini-exclusive-interview-vid\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN KATHIMERINI NEWSPAPER (Vid.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASSAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASSAD-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Kathimerini<\/p>\n<p>By Alexis Papachelas<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against civilians, while taking aim at both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that Syria gave up its chemical arsenal in 2013, Assad said the \u201cWestern narrative started after the victory of the Syrian Army, not before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused Erdogan of being \u201caffiliated\u201d with the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement and called Turkish troops \u201cterrorists\u201d over their intervention in Afrin.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump, who has called Assad an \u201canimal,\u201d the Syrian leader said it did not bother him \u201cbecause I deal with the situation as a politician, as a president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: Ammar Abd Rabbo\/ABACAUSA.COM<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/228495\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/chemical-attack-accusations-fake-assad-tells-kathimerini-in-exclusive-interview\">http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/228495\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/chemical-attack-accusations-fake-assad-tells-kathimerini-in-exclusive-interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Assad&#039;s exclusive interview with Kathimerini | \u0397 \u039a\u0391\u0398\u0397\u039c\u0395\u03a1\u0399\u039d\u0397\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNuOPwfj_3Y?start=6&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Kathimerini By Alexis Papachelas In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against civilians, while taking aim at both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump. Saying that Syria gave up its chemical arsenal in 2013, Assad said the \u201cWestern narrative&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/chemical-attack-accusations-are-fake-assad-tells-kathimerini-exclusive-interview-vid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN KATHIMERINI NEWSPAPER (Vid.)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}