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Feb 7, 2023

By: Dr Karam Shaar

Sanctions Have Little Impact on Bilateral Aid

See these aid planes that landed in Damascus following the earthquake? None of them applied for sanctions exemptions: simple load-fly-unload operations.


Regime-held Syria doesn’t receive a fraction of the aid to Türkiye; not because of sanctions, but because Assad is a thief.

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