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The United States has imposed new sanctions on Syrian lawmakers and military officials accused of backing Syria’s oil production in favor of Bashar al-Assad.
In total, the US Department of the Treasury and the US State Department blacklisted 19 individuals and entities. These are companies in the oil industry, Arfada Petroleum Private Joint Company and Sallizar Shipping SAL, based in Lebanon and Syria, as well as their executives.
Among those mentioned are the head of the Air Force intelligence service, Gassan Jawadat Ismail, and the head of another branch of the intelligence service, Nasr al-Ali.
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The fifth wave of sanctions
These measures freeze the assets of such persons in the United States, prevent them from accessing the United States financial system, and prevent them from entering the United States.
It is the fifth wave of sanctions since the “Caesar Law” came into effect in mid-June, named after “Caesar”, a former Syrian military police photographer who went bankrupt in 2013, taking with him 55,000 photographs of brutality. , abuse and abuse in Syrian prisons.
The United States is determined to exert the greatest pressure possible
His hearing, disguised and without revealing his identity, before the United States Congress in 2014 was the reason for the enactment of the law that bears his name and that took five years to implement. In a statement, Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin said he was “determined to continue putting financial pressure on the Assad regime and its supporters due to the regime’s crackdown.”
The head of US diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, explained that these sanctions were decided as a tribute to the victims of the bombing of the Duma market on October 30, 2015, by “the Iranian-backed forces of Bashar al-Assad. and Russia “. , and in which “more than 70 Syrian citizens were killed.”
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