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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said, in response to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s demand that Syria cut off relations with Iran and stop supplying Hizbullah with weapons, that Syria is not asking anyone’s advice, and that Syria will determine how to run its own affairs.

To prove his statements, he presented the Iran-Syria declaration of increased cooperation and abolition of visa requirements between them.

At a press conference with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Assad said that Syria opposed efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear energy for civilian purposes, because Syria wants such energy for itself. He also noted that Syria is in a constant state of preparedness for an Israeli attack.

Ahmadinejad said that Clinton’s demand expressed American annoyance, and stated his wish that the Americans would “drop dead from this annoyance.” He added that a Middle East without Israel was a divine promise.

Source: SANA, Syria; Mehr, Iran; nowlebanon.com, February 25, 2010.

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