{"id":1766,"date":"2011-10-04T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:41:14","slug":"us-slaps-telecommunications-sanctions-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/us-slaps-telecommunications-sanctions-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US Slaps Telecommunications Sanctions on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"><strong>US firms will be barred from selling Syrian government, or anyone in Syria, telecoms equipment, technology.<\/strong><\/span><strong><\/p>\n<p>ADO-World.org<br \/>\n<\/strong>03-October-2011<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The US Treasury Department on Monday moved to block the sale of telecommunications equipment to Syria, the latest in a series of sanctions aimed at isolating Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Treasury document signed on Monday, US firms will now be barred from selling the Syrian government, or anyone in the country, telecoms equipment or technology, &quot;including satellite or terrestrial network connectivity.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Washington has slapped sanctions on a series of top Syrian government officials amid a deadly crackdown on protestors across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On August 17 President Barack Obama signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against the Syrian regime because of what the White House termed a &quot;continuing escalation of violence against the people of Syria.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions froze all Syrian government property in the United States and banned US citizens from doing new business with the country, or importing petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Tel Aviv on Monday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said it was &quot;a matter of time&quot; before the Syrian regime headed al-Assad is ousted from power by the uprising.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations, the crackdown has killed at least 2,700 people.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the crackdown, Syrian state-backed television channels have broadcast pro-government accounts of events in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian news networks have also been used to broadcast messages from Libya&#8217;s Moamer Gathafi and the remnants of his regime.<\/p>\n<p>The order was signed by Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/?id=48369\"><em>Middle East Online<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US firms will be barred from selling Syrian government, or anyone in Syria, telecoms equipment, technology. ADO-World.org 03-October-2011 WASHINGTON &#8211; The US Treasury Department on Monday moved to block the sale of telecommunications equipment to Syria, the latest in a series of sanctions aimed at isolating Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime. According to a Treasury document signed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/10\/1766_US_Syria_Cell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}