Bashar al-Assad taunts Obama as a ‘weak’ leader

Bashar al-Assad taunted President Obama as a “weak” leader who is being dragged i💦nto the Syrian sh🍸owdown by American hawks.

Assad dissed Obama in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro: “If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no෴ evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He woul🌸d have said publicly, ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefor refer everything to the Security Council.’ ”

“But Obama is weak,” Assad added, “bec🥀ause he is facing pressure from within the United States.”

The Syrian dictator didn’t deny that 🧔his co♔untry has poison gas and other chemical weapons.

But he disputed “the logic” of the U💦S charge that he gassed Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21, killing at least 1,429 people, because his own troops were in the region.

“Suppo🍰se that our army wished to use weapons of mass destruction, is it possible to use them in a zone that it is itself in and where [our] soldiers are injured by these weapons♌?” he said. “Where is the logic?”

He also blasted Obama and French President Francois H𓃲ollande, the most vocal big-power supporter of the US position.

“Whoever accuses must have proof,” Assad said. “We have challenged the United States and France to come up w﷽ith a single piece of proof.”

“Obama and Hollꦏande have been incapable of doing so,” he said.

Assad ridiculed the US charges as “nonsense” in previous interviews but this was the f🐓irst time he attacked Obama directly.