{"id":108671,"date":"2026-05-11T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:20:11","slug":"syria-reintroduces-visa-mastercard-payments-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108671\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Reintroduces Visa, Mastercard Payments After 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Syria launched a trial of electronic payments using Mastercard and Visa on May 9, more than 15 years after the use of the cards was discontinued, local media <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/english.enabbaladi.net\/archives\/2026\/05\/syria-tests-visa-and-mastercard-payments-after-15-years\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trial was launched at a Damascus event held by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The ministry said it was a \u201cstep that opens Syria into the global digital payment system, and promotes the transformation towards financial inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here was published by Feras Al-Massri, and shows Minister Abdulsalam Haykal making a card payment. Credit: Feras Al-Massri via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria launched a trial of electronic payments using Mastercard and Visa on May 9, more than 15 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37408,37409,95,3495],"class_list":{"0":"post-108671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-electronic-payments","9":"tag-mastercard","10":"tag-syria","11":"tag-visa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116556858963612075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}