{"id":281754,"date":"2016-10-18T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281754"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:29:33","slug":"syria-first-lady-asma-al-assad-rejected-offer-of-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/syria-first-lady-asma-al-assad-rejected-offer-of-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria First Lady Asma Al-Assad \u201crejected offer of asylum\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Disgusting efforts from Israel, the US, and NATO! They are really up to anything to create chaos in Syria. But thanks to Russia and China, they are powerless.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s first lady has said she rejected a deal to offer her safe passage out of the war-torn nation in order to stay by her husband&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Asma al-Assad revealed she believed those offering her a new home were trying to undermine her husband Bashar&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Russian state-backed television, she refused to say who made the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Assad also thanked Russia for its &#8220;noble efforts&#8221; supporting the regime.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Assad, whose social media pages are filled with pictures of her meeting orphans and the injured, told Rossiya 24: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here since the beginning and I never thought of being anywhere else at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes I was offered the opportunity to leave Syria or rather to run from Syria. These offers included guarantees of safety and protection for my children and even financial security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to know what these people were really after. It was a deliberate attempt to shatter people&#8217;s confidence in their president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former investment banker, who was born in London, has been Syria&#8217;s first lady since 2000, after Mr Assad took over the presidency from his father Hafez, who had ruled since 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian civil war began after pro-democracy campaigners demanding that Mr Assad step aside took to the streets in March 2011, and were violently repressed by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, estimated earlier this year as many as 400,000 people have died in the ensuing violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-37697113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-37697113<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Disgusting efforts from Israel, the US, and NATO! They are really up to anything to create chaos in Syria. But thanks to Russia and China, they are powerless. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}