Biden Move To Halt Syria Sanctions Will Boost Assad, Critics Say

GOP lawmakers state that US sanctions already include carveouts to allow humanitarian aid to reach Syria after the destruction of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. Wikimedia Commons

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. 33,000.

According to a copy, the Treasury Department issued a license late last week that prohibits financial transactions in Syria. Washington Free Beacon. 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.

“President Biden’s Syria general license has no controls to prevent diversions that could allow aid money to end up in the hands of the regime,” Senator James Risch (R. Idaho), was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Free Beacon. “It is misguided, and will be a windfall to Assad.”

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. Allowed Sources said that the sanctions were imposed on Syria to try and normalize Assad’s regime. The administration has had the opportunity to relax sanctions after the recent earthquake, which created an opportunity for them to create a “dangerous precedent,” Risch and other Republican legislators concur. Assad’s principal patrons are Russia and Iran. Used The earthquake as an Please excuse to support the dictator’s government.

“Easing sanctions on Assad without guardrails opens the door for the regime to line its pockets without helping those in need,” Rep. Joe Wilson (R.S.C.), who is a member the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees told the Free Beacon. “Even worse is that this feeds into Assad’s false claims of U.S. sanction preventing aid to the Syrian people. The 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

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