Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that he believes President Trump’s ban on Syrians attempting to enter the United States is necessary in keeping terrorists out, and is not an attack on the people of Syria.
In an interview with Europe 1 radio, Assad said, “It’s against the terrorists that would infiltrate some of the immigrants to the West. And that happened. It happened in Europe, mainly in Germany.
“I think the aim of Trump is to prevent those people from coming.” It was “not against the Syrian people”, he said.
Assad previously suggested the U.S. and Syria could be “natural allies.”
A three-judge federal appeals court panel last week refused to toss out the injunction and reinstate the travel ban.
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