Flashback — CNN’s Amanpour Asks Bashar al-Assad if He’s Worried About Regime Change: ‘I Was Made in Syria, I Wasn’t Made in the United States’

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AMANPOUR: "Mr. President, you know the rhetoric of regime change is headed towards you from the United States. They are actively looking for a new Syrian leader. They're granting visas and visits to Syrian opposition politicians. They're talking about isolating you diplomatically and, perhaps, a coup d'etat or your regime crumbling. What are you thinking about that?"

AL-ASSAD: "I feel very confident, for one reason, because I was made in Syria. I wasn't made in the United States. So I'm not worried. This is a Syrian decisions. It should be made by the Syrian people, nobody else in this world."