{"id":18270,"date":"2025-06-21T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18270"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:06:52","slug":"trumps-syrian-outreach-turns-an-enemy-into-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18270","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Syrian Outreach Turns an Enemy Into a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three-page waiver<\/a>&nbsp;lifting almost all economic sanctions on Syria unconditionally.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;the Syrian government handed back the old U.S. ambassador&#8217;s residence to Thomas Barrack, who serves as both U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;a waiver isn&#8217;t a permanent end to sanctions. The sanctions imposed by Congress have to be lifted by Congress&#8230;Secretary of State Marco Rubio&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/20\/will-trumps-order-to-lift-u-s-sanctions-on-syria-be-followed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">testified<\/a>&nbsp;to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it should do exactly that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/30\/trumps-syrian-outreach-turns-an-enemy-into-a-friend\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/30\/trumps-syrian-outreach-turns-an-enemy-into-a-friend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a three-page waiver lifting almost all economic sanctions on Syria unconditionally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the Syrian government handed back the old U.S. ambassador&#8217;s residence to Thomas Barrack, who serves as both U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;a waiver isn&#8217;t a permanent end to sanctions. The sanctions imposed by Congress have to be lifted by Congress&#8230;Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it should do exactly that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/30\/trumps-syrian-outreach-turns-an-enemy-into-a-friend\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,221,272,355,314,391,1001,419,170,619],"class_list":["post-18270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-middle-east","tag-sanctions","tag-syria","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18271,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions\/18271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}