{"id":1845592,"date":"2023-02-13T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845592"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:22:30","slug":"biden-move-to-halt-syria-sanctions-will-boost-assad-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-move-to-halt-syria-sanctions-will-boost-assad-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Move To Halt Syria Sanctions Will Boost Assad, Critics Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-move-to-halt-syria-sanctions-will-boost-assad-critics-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers state that US sanctions already include carveouts to allow humanitarian aid to reach Syria after the destruction of Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime in Syria. Wikimedia Commons    <\/p>\n<p>According to Republican lawmakers and regional specialists, a Biden administration decision not to suspend sanctions against Syria will support dictator Bashar al Assad and make it easier to steal humanitarian aid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/12\/middleeast\/deaths-turkey-syria-earthquake-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">33,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a copy, the Treasury Department issued a license late last week that prohibits financial transactions in Syria. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. Although the license was intended to facilitate humanitarian aid reaching the country, sources claim it is unnecessary and too broad to allow Assad to siphon off international aid money for his ongoing war against opposition groups that has been going on for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s Syria general license has no controls to prevent diversions that could allow aid money to end up in the hands of the regime,&#8221; Senator James Risch (R. Idaho), was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.\u00a0&#8220;It is misguided, and will be a windfall to Assad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Risch said that the authorization was an inexplicable gift to Assad since U.S. sanctions already allow for exceptions for humanitarian assistance. Since its inception, the Biden administration tried many times to get humanitarian aid.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-seeks-to-waive-sanctions-on-assad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allowed<\/a> Sources said that the sanctions were imposed on Syria to try and normalize Assad&#8217;s regime. The administration has had the opportunity to relax sanctions after the recent earthquake, which created an opportunity for them to create a &#8220;dangerous precedent,&#8221; Risch and other Republican legislators concur. Assad&#8217;s principal patrons are Russia and Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/197239\/Sixth-cargo-of-Iran-humanitarian-aid-arrives-in-Syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Used<\/a> The earthquake as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/syrian-oppositionists-furious-over-condolences-aid-assad-regime-following-earthquake-assad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please excuse<\/a> to support the dictator&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Easing sanctions on Assad without guardrails opens the door for the regime to line its pockets without helping those in need,&#8221; Rep. Joe Wilson (R.S.C.), who is a member the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Even worse is that this feeds into Assad&#8217;s false claims of U.S. sanction preventing aid to the Syrian people.\u00a0The Biden administration needs to keep the sanctions in place, not lift them. [Russian president Vladimir] Putin and Assad were responsible for the ban on aid to Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Biden administration decision to halt sanctions on Syria will prop up dictator Bashar al-Assad and make it easier for his regime to steal humanitarian assistance, according to Republican lawmakers and regional experts, who argue that current U.S. sanctions already include carveouts for humanitarian aid that can reach the country in the wake of a massive earthquake that killed 33,000.<br \/>\nThe post Biden Move To Halt Syria Sanctions Will Boost Assad, Critics Say appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1845595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[18545,3620,7838,4365,10485,5036,7887],"class_list":["post-1845592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-assad","tag-biden","tag-boost","tag-critics","tag-halt","tag-sanctions","tag-syria"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}