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Assad and His Wife Top List of New U.S. Sanctions on Syria
- ‘Many more sanctions will come,’ State Secretary Pompeo says
- Syria sharply devalued its pound before the announcement
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The U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad, his wife and his inner circle as the Trump administration increases pressure on the regime in an effort to end its nine-year civil war.
The State Department said it was imposing 39 sanction designations “as the beginning of what will be a sustained campaign of economic and political pressure to deny the Assad regime revenue.” “Many more sanctions will come until Assad and his regime stop their needless, brutal war,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a tweet.