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| Barbara Walters |
"Barbara Walters distorted reality in his interview," said the Syrian diplomat to the press following the meeting of the Security Council in which the UN reported that the death toll of repression in Syria and beyond 5000, including over 300 children.
Jafari attacked the issue that was performed in the Walters interview conducted at Al Asad, as it believes that "did not reflect the reality of the conversation" and accused the U.S. of running popular host "only some of the many minutes" had conversation with the Syrian president.
On Wednesday, the ABC aired the interview in which Assad has strongly denied that he ordered the violent suppression of opponents who demanded his resignation, in which he argued that most people who have died in recent months in the country have their supporters and government soldiers.
"There have been no orders to kill or to act brutally," the Syrian president, who noted that "no government in the world kills its own people, unless you head a madman."
Walters criticized Jafari as well as the rest of the media "not to seek the truth" after the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, Navi Pillay, reported that more than 5,000 dead by the repression in Syria and asked the Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Pillay was brought before the Council at the request of France, a move supported by its European partners in the Council (UK, Germany and Portugal) and the United States, countries to which Jafari accused of "being infected with a disease called siriofobia."
The diplomat specifically railed against European countries that have spent months trying to get a conviction against Damascus in the Security Council, recalling among other things that surprised by that attitude, when, for example, "Germany triggered the Second World War in that killed millions of people. "
Jafari dismissed further credibility to UN figures, an organization he accused of not being objective, and stressed that his government harassment must be "a great conspiracy."
