DAMASCUS: Syria's crisis will only be solved by stamping out “terror”, President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday, in reference to rebels fighting his regime.
In a rare speech on Syrian state television, Assad also dismissed the political opposition to his regime as a “failure” that could play no role in solving the country's brutal war.
“No solution can be reached with terror except by striking it with an iron fist,” said Assad.
“I don't think that any sane human being would think that terrorism can be dealt with via politics,” he added.
“There may be a role for politics in dealing with terrorism pre-emptively,”said Assad, adding that as soon as “terrorism” has arisen, it can only be struck out.
In March 2011, a widespread protest movement calling for political change in Syria broke out.
In response, the regime unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent, while systematically labelling dissidents and rebels as “terrorists” and refusing to recognise the existence of a popular revolt.
The movement later morphed into an increasingly radical insurgency and more than 100,000 people have since been killed, the UN says.
The war has also forced millions to flee their homes, while plunging Syria into an unprecedented economic crisis.
In his latest speech, Assad also said Syria's economic woes “are linked to the security situation, and they can only be solved by striking terror”.
Assad's speech comes a week after the army, backed by pro-regime paramilitary troops and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, reclaimed a strategic district of the central city of Homs, after a suffocating siege on rebels that lasted more than a year.
“In this kind of fight, we as Syrians either win together or lose together,” he said. Assad also said that the army, untrained for guerrilla warfare, “has achieved the impossible”.
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