Sheik Khatib did not hide his contempt for Mr. Assad's government in his statement, saying, "One can't trust a regime that kills children and attacks bakeries and shells universities and destroys Syria's infrastructure and commits massacres against innocents, the last of which won't be the Aleppo massacre, which is unprecedented in its savagery".
"We don't trust this regime anymore," one protester there said.
"People are not going to be fooled anymore, they don't trust this regime".
"We don't trust the regime anymore," he said in a phone interview.
This means that all the factions don't trust the regime in this matter".
"The whole issue is America's risk assessment of Iran's future intentions, and they don't trust the regime.
"People don't trust the regime anymore," said Haitham Maleh, a former judge and an often imprisoned human rights activist in Damascus, Syria's capital.
Mr Mousavi asked: "How can people trust a regime which imprisons its friends, colleagues and children?" Websites close to him called for peaceful protests to continue, including a possible general strike.
Those who believe the dissidents are going to believe them, and those who trust the regime will continue to do so.
"They are trying with the clan chiefs, yes, but the clan chiefs don't trust the regime anymore," said Ahmad Ashour, an Arab YPG fighter attached to the Deir Ezzor Military Council (DMC).
