US Sanctions Senior Syrian Officials on Eve of Anniversary of Ghouta Gas Attack

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US Sanctions Senior Syrian Officials on Eve of Anniversary of Ghouta Gas Attack​

By VOA News
August 20, 2020 03:22 PM

The United States has sanctioned six government, financial and military supporters of the Assad regime, including two senior government officials, the U.S. State and Treasury departments announced. The measures enacted Tuesday include sanctions on Syria’s presidential media adviser Luna Al Shibl and senior Ba’ath party official Mohamad Amar Saati.

The news comes a day before the seventh anniversary of the Syrian government’s sarin gas attack on civilians in Ghouta, a suburb of the capital Damascus. The U.S. estimated that at least 1,400 people, including over 400 children, were killed in the Aug. 21, 2013 surface-to-surface rocket attack.

“These new sanctions memorialize the victims of Assad’s chemical weapons attack on Ghouta seven years ago,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter. “We will not stop pressing for accountability and a peaceful solution to the Syrian conflict.”
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All Assad has to do is go to the negotiating table to stop this, he doesn’t. Not the US’s fault. His country is in ruin.
 
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Partly the result of US aid to ‘rebels’. Combined with an aggressive anti-Iran infatuation that’s continued unabated for 40 years because our dictator there was overthrown.
 
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