Bloomberg: Syria Sanctions Relief Sought by Bipartisan Pair of Lawmakers

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is seeking sanctions relief for Syria as the country rebuilds after the fall of President Bashar al Assad.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Representative Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, wrote a letter to to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking them to review the US's Syria sanctions policy with an eye toward removing some measures to help the country's development and counter the influence of Russia and Iran.

"Sanctions inertia would undercut Syria's path to stability," they wrote, citing Rubio's own testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee. "There is an opportunity to explore the removal of sanctions that were aimed at a regime that no longer exists, if doing so would advance positive outcomes."

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