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{{Villain_Infobox |Image = Hafez al-Assad.jpg |fullname = Hafez al-Assad |alias = Abu Basil<br>The Sanctified One |origin = Qardaha, Alawite State, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon |occupation = President of Syria (1971 - 2000)<br>Prime Minister of Syria (1970 - 1971) |type of villain = Abusive Tyrant |goals = Stay in power (succeeded)<br>Train Bashar to succeed him (succeeded)<br>Expand Syrian influence in the Middle East (somewhat successful)<br>Defeat Israel (failed) |skills = High intelligence<br>Deception<br>Military training<br>Political influence<br>Piloting skills |crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Abuse of power<br>Human rights abuses<br>[[Sectarianism]]<br>[[State terrorism]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Americophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Ableism]] |hobby = Abusing his power}} {{Quote|Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.|Hafez al-Assad, hoping for victory in the coming [[Six-Day War]].}} '''Hafez al-Assad''' (Arabic: حافظ الأسد Ḥāfiẓ al-ʾAsad, Levantine pronunciation: [ˈħaːfezˤ elˈʔasad]; October 6, 1930 – June 10, 2000) was a Syrian statesman, politician, and general who served as Prime Minister of Syria between 1970 and 1971 and then President between 1971 and 2000. He also served as Secretary of the Syrian Regional Command of the [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] and Secretary General of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000 and Minister of Defense from 1966 to 1972. Politically a Ba'athist, al-Assad adhered to the ideologies of Arab nationalism, Arab socialism and secularism. Under his administration Syria saw increased stabilization, with a program of secularization and industrialization designed to modernize and strengthen the country as a regional power. He sided with the Soviet Union during the [[Cold War]] in turn for support against Israel, and, while he had forsaken the pan-Arab concept of unifying the Arab world into one Arab nation, he sought to make Syria the defender of Arab interests against Israel.
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