Assad Says Coalition of Russia, Iran, Syria and Iraq needed to save Middle East Region

World October 04, 16:49 UTC+3 TASS- Russian News Agency The Syrian authorities, according to Assad, do not trust the United States due to the policy that country and its allies are pursuing in the Middle East TEHERAN, October 1. /TASS/. The coalition of Russia, Iran, Syria and Iraq has no other choice but to win, otherwise the entire Middle East region will be ruined, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Iran’s IRINN news channel. "The coalition consisting of Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq must succeed or the region will be destroyed," he said. The Syrian authorities, according to Assad, do not trust the United States due to the policy that country and its allies are pursuing in the Middle East. He said the damage done to the country’s infrastructure in the five years of the warfare is estimated at more than 200 billion U.S. dollars. As many as 250,000 people gave been killed in the conflict and six to seven million more have been driven out of their homes. When asked to comment of the West’s changing position, which now doesn’t rule out Assad’s possible participation in an interim government, the Syrian leader said, "I am saying clearly and resolutely, no foreigner can bear responsibility for Syria’s future, for the future of its political system." "Only the Syrian people has the right to express its views on these issues, so all these Western comments are useless for us," Assad stressed. He said the Syrian people had paid an excessive price to agree to become a dependent nation "implementing the will of foreign states." As for the West’s position, it has begun to change after Europe came to face manifestations of terrorism and refugee influx, he added.