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Press TV has conducted an interview with Tahsin al-Halabi, political commentator, about Syria promising to defend itself in the face of any foreign aggression. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

- Mr. Al-Halabi, let’s look at, there are so many things that are going on. First of all the Syrian government seems very strong and it is saying that they will back down. At the same time we hear the drums of war continually beating as far as the United States wanting to attack.

Do you think that the United States will actually attack the Syrian country?

- First of all let me explain that as long as Syria during those two and a half years fought a legitimate, just war against all kinds of terrorism, against all kinds of military terrorist groups coming from Turkey or from Jordan or from everywhere, so it will be in the same consequence when it will defend itself from the main spring of terrorism, USA and its allies.

Because during those two years and a half, USA and its allies in Turkey, in Jordan, in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, they are giving weapons, they are giving money, they are giving logistics, they are giving all kinds of facilities in order to attack Syrian people and Syrian institutions and Syrian government ministries and everywhere.

So now it is the time for USA as long as those military groups failed in achieving the goals of USA, now USA would come in order to support them by more attacks by its vessels, military vessels in the Mediterranean.

I am sure that the Syrian people along with the government, with the leadership, with the army of Syria would continue on this war. It is a kind of continuation in such a war but in a new scale, in comprehensive scale which it would inevitably make Syria attack all its enemies not only the USA vessels waiting to bomb Syria but also Israel, the main enemy of the Arab and Muslim countries in the world and the one that provided USA intelligence CIA about what so-called certain information about the use of the chemical weapons in Syria, ...in certain communications that they pretend to take place.

So I think that Syria would make all this war, this aggression against its people, against the Arab region, against the Muslim even everywhere, a failure and would meet its defeat in such a war.

What made Obama retreat from or to postpone the attack? It is Israel because Israel really took seriously all the declarations of the Syrian military forces or the Syrian government that when Syria would be attacked by USA, it will be inevitably that the Syrian army also would go on war against Israel and Israeli forces. So Israel would be afraid from such war against its territory in the same time when USA would make the aggression.

- Mr. Al-Halabi, do you think that Washington will carry out these attacks?

- Before I was interviewed by the Press TV a few days before and really I expected and I told before the declaration of Obama that sixty percent I bet, I expect that USA would not make this aggression.

Now I am more convinced that USA would find certain alley of political solution, certain window of political solution that would in certain ways save its face in front of other super powers.