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Donald Trump said his administration is now studying the possibility of normalizing relations with Syria-His comments coming shortly after he met the Syrian Chargé President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, whose forces ended with decades of the Assad’s family dictatorship.
The extraordinary meeting, incredible just a month ago, was short but significant.
“I think he got the potential,” Trump said after a 37-minute meeting in Riyadh, with a former Syrian fighter who had previously been associated with al-Qaeda.
In December alone, $ 10 million was shot on the head.
The video recordings of their conversations in the magnificent Saudi Royal Palace showed some original clumsy when they talked through the translator.
Prince of the Saudi Crown, Mohammad Ben Salman, sat next to them. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has joined them by phone.
Trump acknowledged that it was these two leaders who convinced him to lift the US Syrian sanctions.
His sudden announcement on Tuesday night at a major investment forum in Riyadh won a standing ovation. After many previous social media reports, it was a face that there was no interest in Syria in the US.
“A heavy guy, a very strong past,” is how Trump later described the ball of journalists who travel with his power of the American delegation in his first official four-day excursion.
It was a very Trump gloss about the old ties of Sharaa on al-Qaeda. His Islamist Group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) was a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria until he broke ties in 2016. HTS is still appointed terrorist organization by the United Nations, the United States and the UK.
Since the authorities’ assumption in December, Sharaa has western business costumes and has been trying to present itself to all Syrians.
“This is a new light at the end of this tunnel,” exclaimed Hinda, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, in the Provisional Government.
She told the Newshour BBC program that they had called for sanctions since their “Liberation Day”.
The US decision has caused a celebration in the county, which is said to be 90% of the Syrians living in poverty, after more than a decade of civil war and deep suffering.
Removing the restrictions that have excluded Syria from the international financial system will allow you to more actively participate in the help agencies and stimulate foreign investment and trade.
“We are North Korea of the Middle East,” said the reception room in Damascus last December, when I asked for another hotel’s electronic key.
He complained with tears that “we lack cards, we have a lack of everything.”
It can also help convince some of the millions of Syrians living in exile, think more seriously about returning home. And this can help minor government to pay salaries, start recovering and deciding dissatisfaction with everyday life.
But the dismantling of the huge network of sanctions that Syria will now strangle will take time.
“Some sanctions can be removed immediately with the help of the president,” Bloomberg commented on Dina Esfandiary.
“But raising multilayer sanctions will not be easy and will require real obligations of Trump administration.”
I remember going to Tehran as a result of Iran’s 2015 nuclear transaction and the Obama Administration’s commitment to facilitate sanctions.
At a press conference with a high representative of the EU foreign policy, Iranian journalists continued to ask, with sensitive suffering, why they were still impossible to open a bank account.
Syria’s new members, including regional powers, such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are now located to form new Syria, will have to provide Trump and his team interested.
But he made it clear what awaits something in return when the relationship is complete. The first element in his list is “Join Abraham”.
The US president is considering normalizing the normalization process with Israel, to which several Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, have joined one of its foreign policy achievements in the first term.
Sharaa, highly appreciated by his friends as pragmatic, has already given a sign that he understood the importance of building working relations with his neighbor, although Israel continues to bomb what he calls “terrorist goals” – air base and depot weapons – insist on the fact that they can “fall into the strangers”.
Last month, the Syrian leader reportedly said he was visiting US Corai Corridge that Syria was ready to normalize ties with Israel and join Abraham’s agreements in the “right terms”.
Israeli media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on President Trump not to lift sanctions. He remains suspicious of Sharaa and HTS forces, as well as in other groups that include foreign militants in their ranks.
Removal of foreign fighters is another Washington’s requirements; This is one of the largest problems that are now facing Syria.
President Trump recognized this moment as a “chance of greatness.” Millions of Syrians just welcome the chances that their lives will finally start to change for the better.
