ISIS and al-Assad two sides of same coin, says France

(IraqiNews.com) French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described ISIS group and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as “two sides of the same coin,” pointing out that the support of Assad to take over Syria in the future is a double fault at the moral and political levels.

French Embassy in Baghdad quoted Fabius as saying, “The ISIS group and Bashar al-Assad are two sides of the same coin, as much as we are in favor of a political solution in Syria that includes elements of the regime and the opposition, as much as we think that the support of Bashar al-Assad to take over the management of Syria in the future is a double fault at the moral and political levels alike, because it means pushing those who the regime chases into the arms of ISIS. ”

French President Francois Oland said earlier, that the Syrian opposition is the sole representative of the Syrian people, while called for condemnation of the Syrian government, which has been implicated in violence over the past years.