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Fabricated reports and lies blame Assad. On June 4 , he responded, saying:
"Since the early days of this crisis, we announced a number of clear political steps to enhance the development process through popular participation in order to undercut all those who tried to hide under slogans of reform and make use of the events for unpatriotic and dishonourable objectives.""Despite the denials of these achievements in the political sphere on the part of foreign and domestic powers....we have never stopped carrying out what we announced and what we started."
"Laws have been passed, local administration elections have been held, and later on there was a referendum on the constitution in response to those attempts."
"The international role in what is happening is already well-known not only for decades, but for centuries past. And I don't think it's going to change in the foreseeable future. Colonialism is still colonialism. It only changed in terms of methods and ways of attack."
"The political process is moving forward, but terrorism is growing and hasn't subsided. The laws which have been passed since the beginning of the crisis haven't made an impact on terrorism and made it subside."
"Terrorists are concerned neither with reform nor with dialogue. They are criminals who have set themselves a task....They will never stop unless we stop them."
"What we are facing is a project of internal sedition aiming at the destruction of the homeland. The instrument of this sedition is terrorism."
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