Bashar Assad: ‘The West Wants to Get Rid of Me and Putin’
![Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin [left to right] meet each other in the Kremlin. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin [left to right] meet each other in the Kremlin.](http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/102083/46/1020834645.jpg)
The West is trying to portray Vladimir Putin as an enemy and dictator who cracks down on domestic opposition, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview on Tuesday.
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