The US Treasury Department on Monday issued a six-month general license to waive some sanctions on Syria to allow transactions with the new Syrian government that’s led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda that’s designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organization.
For years, the US has imposed crippling economic sanctions on Syria that were designed to prevent the country’s reconstruction. The sanctions, which have a devastating impact on Syrian civilians, were part of the regime change effort against former President Bashar al-Assad, which ultimately succeeded when he fled the country on December 8 due to an HTS offensive.
In a press release on the general license, the Treasury Department acknowledged the scope of US sanctions on Syria, saying the country was one of the “most comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions.” The license does not lift any sanctions but allows certain transactions with the HTS-led government.
According to the document, the general license allows “transactions in support of the sale, supply, storage, or donation of energy, including petroleum, petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity, to or within Syria” and “transactions that are ordinarily incident and necessary to processing the transfer of noncommercial, personal remittances to Syria, including through the Central Bank of Syria.”
The Treasury Department said the purpose of the license is to ensure US sanctions “do not impede activities to meet basic human needs, including the provision of public services or humanitarian assistance,” an acknowledgment that US sanctions have been impeding humanitarian goods.
The US has also lifted a $10 million bounty that it had on the head of HTS’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, who has been going by his real name, Ahmad al-Sharaa. The US sent Barbara Leaf, a high-level State Department official, to hold a meeting with Julani in Damascus, which she described as “good” and “productive.”
President Biden and other US officials celebrated the regime change in Syria despite the country being taken over by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group. Demonstrating the HTS extremist history, videos have emerged of Syria’s new justice minister, Shadi al-Waisi, overseeing the execution of two women over charges of adultery and prostitution in 2015.
Oye Vey!…!….!
The USA is Israel's prostitute! Its pants are down so low now that the world has confirmed it does NOT have any gonads to speak of! Our tax dollars are being sent to a homicidal state. Doesn't it make you proud to be Amerikan? If you're ever driving on a street and there is a dead run-over cat or dog or whatever squished all over the place, that is just about how Gaza's children look after Israel visits the neighborhood. I CURSE everyone invloved in the mass murder of the innocent and defenseless!
Me too… Karma time is near…!
Only the Syrian people ruled by terrorists are human beings…! The Syrian people ruled under Assad were not…!
We overthrew Syria, we now need to nurture it, to make it a powerful Islamic state, so we and Israel can make more war. If we get lucky, Syria can cause Russia trouble, in our newly created cold war.
They also want no sympathy for the Syrians as their land is stolen. And they want no sympathy as the state assets are broken to reduce war capability.
Assad and Saddam were secular, bad for the narrative.
US government showing its True Face collaborating with Terrorists in Suits…! It's not a secret any more…!
Don't be confused!
It;s easy!
They're only terrorists when we say they are.
– a public service reminder from your imperialist overlords