As HTS and other Turkish-backed extremists consolidate power in Syria, Washington and its allies are looking for ways to remove the former ISIS and Al-Qaeda factions from their terrorism blacklists
Two members of the US Congress are urging the White House to ease “some sanctions” on Syria to help its economy in the wake of the takeover of the country by extremist armed groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
According to the letter reviewed by Reuters, Republican Representative Joe Wilson, who chairs the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, and Democratic Representative Brendan Boyle, who chairs the Free Syria Caucus, say that Washington needs to “suspend” part of a wide range of economic sanctions implemented under the Caesar Act to “build goodwill” with the extremists in power.
“A deliberate and phased approach is required to unwind sanctions and export controls against Syria,” the letter by Wilson and Boyle reportedly says, adding that the gesture could “incentivize the transitional government's compliance with international norms.”
Sources within HTS told Reuters on Tuesday that the UN-designated terrorist organization is “in touch” with officials in Washington to lift parts of the Caesar Act sanctions. “All of the obstacles facing the Syrian people and their future should be removed,” the British outlet cites its sources as saying.
In 2019, Washington enacted the Syria-specific Caesar Act, granting the US authority to impose sanctions on anyone - regardless of nationality - who conducts business with Syria, participates in infrastructure and energy projects, provides support to the Syrian government, or supplies goods or services to the Syrian military.
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More than one year after the US imposed sanctions under the "Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act", the UN reported an "800 per cent rise in food prices."
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The US is illegally occupying a third of Syria, the region which contains most of the country’s oil and much of its arable farmland, plundering the resources of the country, all the while imposing unilateral sanctions on Syria for the demented, twisted, psychopathic motive of preventing the reconstruction of the now impoverished nation.
...The whole '“We have to be in Syria to fight ISIS” (and that is why we are plundering the country’s exhaustible natural resources as the people live in poverty the US has largely contributed to, and still does through sanctions) is a bit convenient given that a 2012 intelligence report from the DOD reveals that the US *checks notes* predicted that funding the US funding the opposition to Assad, whom the report acknowledged was largely composed of *checks notes* Jihadi extremists including Al-Qaeda, would likely lead to an Islamic state, which “the supporting powers to the opposition”, identifed as the US, Turkey, and the Gulf nations, WANT…. “isolate the Assad regime”… You can’t make this shit up.
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