Syrian President \u2060Ahmed al-Sharaa held a phone \u2060call with US President Donald Trump in which they discussed supporting the Syrian economy and the latest regional developments, the Syrian presidency said \u200con Sunday.<\/p>\n
During the call, Sharaa said lifting the remaining US sanctions on Syria was essential to reviving the economy and attracting investments, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
The United States says some sanctions remain in \u2060place despite dismantling most of its Syria sanctions regime and repealing \u200cthe Caesar Act, which imposed sweeping measures on individuals, companies and institutions linked to former president \u200cBashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n
Washington says sanctions will continue to \u2060target \u2060Assad and his associates, as well as alleged human rights abusers, traffickers in \u200cthe addictive stimulant Captagon, and other actors it says are destabilising the region.<\/p>\n
The US \u200chas also said it is reviewing Syria\u2019s designation as \u200ca state sponsor of terrorism, which carries restrictions \u2060on US foreign help, defence exports and certain financial transactions.<\/p>\n
Lifting the \u2060remaining sanctions is widely seen as key to the success of Syria\u2019s new government. Several Saudi \u200cfirms are planning billion-dollar \u200cinvestments in the country as part of Riyadh\u2019s efforts to support its recovery, while other Gulf states have also pledged financial help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syrian President \u2060Ahmed al-Sharaa held a phone \u2060call with US President Donald Trump in which they discussed supporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[672,1613,46002,18407,38,714,587,12426,95,10741,51,153,1705],"class_list":["post-139625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-ahmed-al-sharaa","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-caesar-act","tag-captagon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-states","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi","tag-syria","tag-syrian","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116672668746775625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139625","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=139625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}