Alwaght- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the US is pursuing policies based on threats, imposing sanctions and supporting terrorism.
President Assad made the remarks on Wednesday during his meeting with the Richard Black, a member of the Virginia State Senate, who was in Damascus.
The meeting touched upon the latest developments and the policies undertaken by the US in the region.
Assad said that a change in the US role toward achieving peace instead of continuing to inflame wars would be more beneficial for the US and its people.
Black, for his part, said the policies enacted by successive American administrations vis-à-vis the West Asia have fostered mistrust among regional people and shattered their belief in all American strategies.
The US senator also lauded the return of life to many areas liberated from the scourge of terrorism, hoping that peace and stability would prevail all across Syria and terrorism is defeated.
This meeting comes as a new book has revealed that US President Donald Trump had allegedly demanded the assassination of Assad after a 2017 chemical attack that Washington blamed on Damascus.
According to an excerpt from the book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, the US president told Defense Secretary James Mattis that he intended to assassinate the Syrian leader, after Washington accused the government in Damascus of a suspected chemical weapons attack against the militant-held village of Khan Shaykhun in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib last year.
"Let's … kill him! Let's go in. Let's kill the … lot of them," Trump told Mattis on the phone.
Mattis reportedly told Trump he would get "right on it" in an apparent attempt to pacify the president, but hung up the phone and instead told a senior aide, "We're not going to do any of that. We're going to be much more measured," Woodward wrote.
