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UK to sanction Assad's allies on 10th anniversary of West's war on Syria

Henry Batyaev
Sputnik
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:40 UTC

The new restrictive measures against top Syrian officials come as a decade has passed since Syria descended into a bloody civil war that grew to involve multiple regional and foreign actors.

Comment: The West helped foment unrest in Syria which it then used as pretext to wage war on Syria.

The United Kingdom has introduced sanctions against six officials close to President Bashar al-Assad. The punitive measures target Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad, Assad adviser Luna al-Shibl, financier Yassar Ibrahim, businessman Muhammad Bara' Al-Qatirji, Republican Guard commander Malik Aliaa, and Army Major Zaid Salah.

"The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for the temerity of demanding peaceful reform", Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said when announcing the sanctions.

The punitive measures will include travel bans and asset freezes against the designated members, the Foreign Office said in a press release.

This marks the first time the United Kingdom has punished Syria with sanctions since its withdrawal from the European Union.

The sanctions come as London's Metropolitan Police Service has launched a preliminary investigation into alleged "encouragement of terrorist acts" by President Assad's wife Asma.

Comment: This Asma? A Rose in the Desert: Asma Al-Assad, Lady Diana of the Middle East

10 Years of Syrian Conflict

The announcement also coincides with the 10th anniversary of the beginning of a protracted bloody civil war in the Middle Eastern nation.

What started as an uprising on 15 March 2011 quickly escalated into a major conflict between the state and opposition groups, including the notorious Daesh* terrorists.

Comment: The very terrorists the West claims to want to defeat, but that's also caught supplying with weaponry: HUGE cache of weapons made in US, Israel, Turkey & Gulf states abandoned by terrorists in recently liberated area of Syria

The civil war also drew in international actors. In 2015, Damascus requested Moscow's assistance in countering armed opposition forces, including terrorist organisations, that had captured large swathes of Syrian territory.

Russia, Turkey, and Iran are currently the ceasefire guarantors in war-torn Syria. Russia regularly carries out humanitarian operations across the country and helps Damascus in providing safe passage for the return of Syrian refugees.

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graeme15b · 2021-03-15T22:08:39Z

"The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for the temerity of demanding peaceful reform", Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said when announcing the sanctions.

Another psuedo-reality peddling psychopathic scum bucket retard.

Joyly · 2021-03-16T04:47:50Z

graeme15b I look forward to seeing the headlines that some Brave country announces sanctions on the USA (and Allies) for their interference.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-16T07:58:36Z

THIS IS IN CAPS LOCK, JUST A NOTE, IM NOT YELLING, COS WHAT IS THE POINT, IVE LEARNT MOST READ CAPS LOCK COMMENTS, IT JUST SEEMS MORE " HEY, IN YOUR FACE, READ THIS PPLE" KIND OF THING!! BE A GREAT READ..

UTTER BOLLOX, ASSAD IS NOT THE HITLER WESTERN MEDIA PORTRAY,

THE WEST, = USA, STEALS SYRIAN OIL ON A DAILY BASIS, ILLEGALLY OCCUPIES SYRIAN TURF, AN ACT OF WAR AS USUAL,

THE WEST,= ORGANISE CHEM ATTACKS, BLAME THE SIDES, ESPECIALLY THE RUSSIANS, BUT NOT TO MENTION THE USA KILLED OVER 200 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, A WHILE AGO NOW BUT IT WAS KEPT UNDER THE RUG, AS TO NOT CAUSE A NUKE STRIKE ON EITHER SIDE,

RESULT, == KILLING OVER 350 MILLION, EAST AND WEST, IN THE LATER MONTHS CAUSING A NUCLEAR WINTER,

THE WEST,= MADE DEALS WITH TURKEY SO TURKEY SENT CARAVANS ALL THROUGH GERMANY, PARIS AND EUROPE AS THE WEST CARPET BOMBS FOR THE TURKS, TO AGAIN STEAL AND RAPE SYRIA FOR ITS RESOURCES,

IF IT WASNT FOR THE RUSSIANS, IE, PUTIN, SYRIA WOULD OF BEEN NUKED OVER TIME AND TIME AGAIN,

SYRIA, === THE MAIN ROAD FOR THE SILK BELT, GLOBAL TRADE, WHOMEVER OWNS IT, HAS THE GLOBAL BANK IN THERE POCKET.. SIMPLE, THIS HAS AND WILL BE THE ETERNAL BATTLE, BEEN GOING ON FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BUT YET, NOBODY SEEMS TO WAKE UP, AND AS USUAL, ITS ALWAYS THE USA THAT STIRS THE SHIT IN THE POT, THEN THROWS THE POT!!

USA,== EMPLOYED NAZI OFFICIALS AFTER WW2, THEY WENT INTO NASA, CIA, NSA, EVERY TOP NOTCH GOV BRANCH, AND THEN ADOPTED THERE IDEOLOGY, BYE BYE, SLOW DEATH TO DEMOCRACY,

OVER 6000 NAZI ARRESTED, 15 WERE HANGED, SOME KILLED THEMSELVES, THE COST OF THE TRIALS WAS TOO MUCH, BUT IT WASNT TOO MUCH TO TEST 2 NUKES AFTER A CERTAIN COUNTRY SURRENDERED WEEKS BEFORE THE FIRST NUKE WAS DEPLOYED, JUST TO SEE THE END RESULT, THE 2ND BOMB, DIFFERENT INGREDIANTS, AGAIN, TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD CAUSE, THE END RESULT!!

USA 2021= EVERYTHING THE NAZIS HAVE DONE, USA HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH EVERYTHING, IE, ATTACKING THE NUREMBURG UNITED NATIONS RULING, WHERE IF THE USA ARE INVESTIGATED FOR WAR CRIMES, THE US WILL SUE, AND THEN MAYBE SNIPER EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE OF THAT GLOBAL PEACE MAKING BODY OF GOV, THEN BYE BYE TO THAT,

1947, NUREMBURG BODY, NOT ANY GOV ON PLANET EARTH CAN FORCE THE INOCULATION OF ANYTHING ON ANY INDIVIDUAL WORLD WIDE NO MATTER THE ARGUEMENT, EVERY CITIZEN HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE, AND 2021, IF WE REFUSE, WE ARE SACKED, RIDICULED, KICKED TO THE STREETS TO SLOWLY DIE A HUNGRY UNHEALTHY DEATH,

AND EVERY COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT AGREE WITH THERE NAZI POLICY ARE THE ENEMY,

GOOD ON SYRIA FOR NOT BOWING TO THE USA, AND ITS BULLSHIT PROXIES, THE WORLD KNOWS THE TRUTH,

USA EMPLOYED = THOSE MUSLIM HEAD CHOPPERS, ISIS, ( NOT THE SPACE STATION, EVEN THOUGH THE SPACE STATION IS ACTUALLY NOT IN SPACE, ITS IN THE UPPER STRATOSHERE, IF IT WAS IN SPACE IT WOULD DRIFT AWAY TO WHERE EVER IT WOULD END UP) TO GO CAUSE DAMAGE, RAPE AND STEAL GET PAID USA MONEY,

USA, = SO DEMONISES RUSSIA, YET NEEDS RUSSIAN TECH TO GO TO THE SPACE STATION, SURVIVE AND DEPLOY,

USA== A CURRENTLY DECLINING EMPIRE FASTER BY THE DAY!!

USA, RUSSIA, UK, CHINA WERE THE MAIN 4 GIANT POWERS THAT DESTROYED THE EVIL NAZI REGIME, 2021, THERE ALL AT EACH OTHERS THROATS, AND YET NOT ONE OF EACH COUNTRY CAN EVER FIND ANY FAULT AS TO WHICH WHY THIS IS NOW THE NEW NORM OF THINKING AMONGST EACH OTHER,

DEMOCRACY, = EVERY WESTERN COUNTRY, ITS CITIZENS DO NOT TRUST ITS OWN GOV, CHAOS AND PROTESTS HAPPEN ON A REG BASIS, THE NEW CENTURY PLAGUE, IE CORONA VIRUS ETC, BEEN AROUND FOR MILLENIA, BUT NOW, WOW, ITS SO DIFFERENT, NOT,!!, KEEPS ON SPREADING, THE NEW DEATH RATE GLOBALLY IS HELL OF A LOT LOWER THAN THE LAST 5 YEARS, GLOBALLY, NOBODY DIES FROM ANYTHING ANYMORE, THE MEDIA TELL YOU MOST NOWADAYS DIE FROM THIS MILLENIA AGE OLD COVID BULLSHIT,

BUT HEY, THE WESTERN MEDIA WILL TELL YOU A SNAKE WILL SAVE A FISH FROM DROWNING WHILST HANGING FROM A TREE!! BUT SNAKES DO THAT ON A REG BASIS, "ITS CALLED HUNTING", FOR THE SNAKE THAT LOVES TOO FISH", FOR ITS EVENING DINNER ON THE RIVERBANK WATCHING THE SUNSET!!

YET JULIAN ASSANGE IS LOCKED UP, YET JULIAN ASSANGE IS LOCKED UP???????????????????????????????

WE LIVE IN TIMES NOW NEVER EVER SEEN, TRUST IS AT A TO LITTLE TO NONE LEVEL IN EVERY, IF NOT MOST CORNERS OF THIS EARTH, THOSE IN GOV, WHICH EVER, WANT EYES ON ALL AND EVERY ONE OF ITS CITIZENS, PERMISSION GRANTED OR NOT, THE HUMAN POP ARE NOW IN THIS EXPERIMENT MODE OF THIS NEW VACCINE TEST,

SO, WHY DO THESE GEORGIA STONES STAND TALL, NUMBER ONE COMMANDMENT FROM THE EVIL ANTI HUMAN MONEY LOVING SOUL LESS TEMPORARY MORTAL WROTE, " KEEP THE EARTH POP UNDER 500,000,000!! REGARDLESS OF RACE, GENDER, AS WE ALREADY KNOW NOW, THERES ALWAYS BEEN 2 GENDERS OF THIS TEMP MORTAL RACE, THERE ARE NOT ANYMORE, THE OTHERS ARE MENTAL ISSUES THAT ONLY SEEK ATTENTION TO SEEK THE TICK OF APPROVAL FROM A TOTAL STRANGER TO EASE THERE TROUBLED MIND!!, BUT IF ITS SOCIAL MEDIA, YOUR ALL BEST FRIENDS RIGHT!! FFS..

WENT OFF TRACK ABIT.. BUT WHY DO PEACEKEEPERS CARRY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION FFS!!

NOW YOU GET THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!!

LET THE THINKING BEGIN, OR, AS USUAL, THOSE WHOM COMMENT, WILL MOCK, SLANDER, ACUSE ME OF WHAT EVER RACIAL, GENDER BASHING MEDIA HATING, WORD MANIPULATING SOME SHIT OR OTHER, AND YET THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, AND YET, CERTAIN SANCTIONS SEEM TO JUST DISCIPLINE, YET ALTER EVERYTHING, IT NEVER EVER BRINGS CONSULTATION, UNDERSTANDING PEACE AND HARMONEY, ITS EITHER MY WAY OR, .... MY WAY, OR ELSE..

THIS TEMP MORTAL RACE HAS NOT LEARNT ANYTHING IN THE LAST 300YRS, FINE, AND WHEN ITS HOME, THIS EARTH HAS HAD IT, BECAUSE OF WAR, HATE, MATERIALISM BIOLOGICAL MEN WANT TO BECOME MENTAL WOMEN, VICE VERSA, AND MAN PLAYING GOD ETC, ITS NOT A GOOD ENDING, AND NOW GENDER LESS BABIES, WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT!!

THIS PLANET WAS PURGED NOT THAT LONG AGO, AND THE AFTER EFFECTS TOOK THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO CORRECT ITSELF, UPRIGHT ITSELF, THEN GROWTH BEGAN..AGAIN... WHO KNOWS, MAYBE LETS ALL HOPE FOR ANOTHER PURGE, BECAUSE THERE IS NO PEACE AND QUIET IN SIGHT FOR MANY A MILLENIA TO COME AS YET, AND BY THEN, ITS WAY TOO LATE!!

I REPECT PUTIN AND XI FOR THERE EXTREME PATIENCE, AND LONG TERM HUMAN PASSION FOR THE OUTCOME OF THIS PLANET, I CANT SAY MUCH FOR THE OTHERS, CHINESE WOMEN, AND RUSIIAN LADYS ARE THE WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FRIENDLY, YET THE WEST, FFS, SILICON VALLEY, EGO AND MATERIALISM SEEMS TO MAKE THEM ONLY LOVE AND LIKE YOU FOR A WHILE, TILL THE FUNDS RUN OUT!!

CAN GO ON, BUT WONT, ENJOY YOUR EVENING DINNER OR YOUR BREAKFAST WHERE EVER YOU MAYBE ON THIS AMAZING BEAUTIFUL PLANET, FURTHEREST AWAY FROM THE CIVILISED UNIVERSAL PEACE LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TODAYS HUMAN RACE ARE ONLY A STONE THROWING DISTANCE FROM THE HAIRY CAVE DWELLERS THAT FIGURED OUT FIRE, AND COOKING A ROAST MEAT DINNER, THERES MUCH MORE TO LEARN, AND UNLEARNING WHAT IT KNOWS NOW, IS SET, FOR ITS CURRENT DESTRUCTION, AND AGAIN, IT MUST BEGIN AGAIN,

MAYBE GET IT BETTER AGAIN THE NEXT TIME AS THE EARTH WILL HEAL BACK TO BRAND NEW, ONLY AFTER ITS PURGED ITSELF FROM THE CURRENT PLAGUE THATS TEARING IT APART FOR ITS OWN SELFISH DESIRES, AND ITS MASS FAILURES TO CORRECT ITSELF, AS UNDER THE HEAVENS WE ARE ONE BIG FAMILY, ONLY WHEN THESE DIFFERENCES ARE SEEN AS ONLY DIFFERENCES AND NOT AN ENEMY LEVEL, ONLY THEN, WE CAN ALL LIVE IN PEACE, AND HARMONY!!

ID BE SURPRISED WHO READS THIS, AND DOES NOT INSULT, OR SLAG ME OFF, AND TOTALLY UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING WRITTEN HERE, ALSO BE SURPRISED IF ITS NOT DELETED WITHIN A MINUTE, BECAUSE COMMON SENSE, AND THE OPINION FROM SOMEONE WHOM IS AWARE, WELL LEARNT, OF TODAYS PHILOSOPHY, MANY OF COURSE, AND IS A BELIEVER, WITH HARD FAITH IN KNOWING WHEN WE LEAVE THIS TEMP MORTAL FLESH WE DO CARRY ON, WE DO CONTINUE TO LIVE, WE ONLY SHED THE VEHICLE WE ARE BORN INTO, YET, I CAN GO ON BUT WONT..

IM JUST SAD, FOR THIS HUMAN RACE, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, AS PATTERNS NEVER CEASE TO END, BUT MOTHER EARTH KNOWS WHEN SHE HAS HAD ENOUGH, THAT TIME IS AT HAND!!

Joyly · 2021-03-16T10:24:44Z

blackwolfpaul I agree with most of what you said. It would be much easier to read if NOT in shouty caps. All I can do is do the right thing in every situation... and cannot answer for anyone else.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-16T21:00:37Z

Joyly hiya

not in shouty caps as mentioned at the very top.. it got your attention, my main purpose.. woohoo..

Joyly · 2021-03-16T23:28:18Z

blackwolfpaul No it did not. I read (or scan) everything. I read it in spite of the capitals.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-17T07:21:04Z

Joyly ffs,, i cannot explain it ANY EASIER, OTHER THAN IT IS WRITTEN AT THE TOP IM NOT YELLING, AGAIN FFS..

GET A HOBBY, WEEDS NEED OXYGEN TO BREATHE, YOU DIDNT SCAN THE FIRST FEWE SENTENCES!! jesus holy christ, now i know how he feels talking to walls, some brick, others mostly MUD!

katesisco · 2021-03-16T12:43:22Z

You would think that as the world faces future choices that the number ONE would be a settlement of all the armed conflicts, the sanctions of arms producers, the isolation of countries that use their political power to issue continuous economic punishments and the genuine military withdrawal from foreign lands.

Awordinyourear · 2021-03-16T13:37:29Z

Black wolf Paul, you are allowed to rant and rail at the dark deep stupids who promote dischordianism and fear.

The only thing is ,we used to think that by voting we could put a stop to this insanity and all the violence, that today bars and forbids any right minded person from supporting these idiot members of our own human race.

Boris has just announced a 40 percent increase in nukes for the UK.

Apart from an independent Scotland insisting on keeping them come the end of the UK, how does this protect us,

UK can no more use them now than before. If you do use them expect a similar attack back. Even if you use one and it gets out publically the UK will be a pariah.

Sun Tzu would understand, Use it and lose everything.

So cutting the armed conventional forces and increasing nukes is an abrogation f the responsibility to protect the Nation.

dumb and dumber.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-16T21:01:55Z

Awordinyourear ffs, as mentioned AT THE TOP, im not ranting and wailing, pple, for you to comment, your forgotten to read the top line.. caps were to get your attention..

Tiu · 2021-03-17T05:48:47Z

blackwolfpaul Using all caps doesn't work very well. It just makes it harder to read - especially when there is a lot of text. As a qualified typographer my training has told me to only use all caps for short headings, never for text. To highlight or emphasis text use bold or italics ... sparingly.

The thing that really irks me is when people get tattoo's using gothic script in all caps - that's a typographic abomination!

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-17T07:22:12Z

Tiu im no fan of goth tatts also.. errgghhh, the ego of most eh!!

Awordinyourear · 2021-03-17T10:20:00Z

Awordinyourear ffs, as mentioned AT THE TOP, im not ranting and wailing, pple, for you to comment, your forgotten to read the top line.. caps were to get your attention..

I was merely assisting you, and given the subject matter I would happily provide the biggest bullhorn I could find. If one is not shocked at the departure from the aim of disarming all nukes wordwide to ramping up the suicidal stakes by a further bout of *uck you rearmarment by Britain.

Broadly speaking we agree that the current road will not provide peace or prosperity and a different way is needed.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-17T13:09:14Z

Awordinyourear oh ok.. ffs cheers bro, or, can i, or am i allowed to say that "bro" anymore?

pple marrying roller coasters, marrying silicon 6ft dolls, yet given a name, shag the fook out of it, yet its not a sex toy cos they married it!! ffs.. and some clown that works for some religious tax free clergy allowed it, minus the shrink report on many many levels,,

no wonder our lord jesus said " forgive them, for they know not what they do" , this clearly meant more than that!!

go fookin figure..

zman · 2021-03-16T15:50:59Z

Ahhh, yes. The same old 'when in doubt, double-down'. Saw the ad for CBS' 60 minutes a week ago. The lead in? It was on Assad..."Assad, the dictator that gases and slaughters his people". I see a new push against Assad coming, as this looks to be warming up the sheeple for more interventionist actions. There is a reason none of the MSM has comment boards. They just publish lies, they can't defend them.

blackwolfpaul · 2021-03-16T21:02:42Z

zman AMEN BROTHER....

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