Syria's First Lady Asma Al-Assad Gives First TV Interview in Eight Years

Reuters: Syrian president's wife says she was offered a deal to flee Syria

The wife of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview her husband's foes had offered her the chance to flee Syria in order to try to shake confidence in him, but that she had not left the country since the war erupted.

Speaking in English to Russia's state-backed Rossiya 24 channel, Asma Assad, a London-born former investment banker, did not say who made the offers.

But she said the people trying to get her to flee had not been Syrian and that their offers were "stupid."

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WNU editor: She speaks very eloquently .... but something about her in this interview tells me that she really does not have a good idea on how devastated the country has become. It is just my impression .... I could be completely wrong .... but I found her answers to be robotic and scripted.

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