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#Assad

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Mona Yacoubian
Mona Yacoubian

“The US position under President Joe Biden reflects a tricky, gnarly, complex challenge. The Biden administration perhaps has made a calculus that, 'Okay, the region is moving forward with normalisation. Perhaps the issue then is to get something for it, get concessions'. But without accountability for Syrian government abuses, Washington will not normalise its relations with Damascus or ease its heavy sanctions, including the blocking of foreign reconstruction funds. Frankly, given Assad and given his role and given the lack of accountability, it's very hard - if not impossible - to imagine that the US is going to shift its position with respect to either normalising ties or yielding on the issues around reconstruction, lifting sanctions.”

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Vice president of the Middle East and North Africa centre at the US Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank funded by the US Congress
19 May 2023 3 1
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Joshua Landis
Joshua Landis

“They've got themselves in this terrible position where they're upholding a Syria foreign policy that's based on 10 years of bad assumptions and wrong analysis, which is that Assad [Bashar al-Assad] was going to fall. And how do you back away from that without losing face? You can't. You have to lose face at some level, and you have to hurt your allies that you've built up over 10 years.”

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US-based Syria expert who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at Oklahoma University
19 Oct 2021 3 2
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Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken

“What we have not done and what we do not intend to do is to express any support for efforts to normalise relations or rehabilitate Mr Assad [Bashar al-Assad] or lifted a single sanction on Syria or changed our position to oppose the reconstruction of Syria, until there is irreversible progress towards a political solution, which we believe is necessary and vital.”

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U.S. Secretary of State
13 Oct 2021 3 2
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Malik al-Abdeh
Malik al-Abdeh

“What the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] is desperate to achieve is to end the US and EU sanctions and restore diplomatic relations with Arab countries and the west. King Abdullah appears to be putting these on the table and saying 'let's give these to Assad in return for limited behavioural change'. Assad will not engage in a transactional relationship as described in the paper. Instead, he will likely exploit the channels extended to him to undermine whatever leverage the west/Arab states have.”

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Syria watcher close to the Syrian opposition
26 Sep 2021 6 6
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Haya Atassi
Haya Atassi

“We are surprised the UN is involved in such activities in areas which are really not safe at all. The Syrian regime is not trustworthy. We can't trust the regime with these people. We think the UN in Syria is failing to properly inform Syrians of the situation and their activities in returning Syrians. The research shows a pattern with which the regime treats people coming back from Rukban. These people are not coming back to their homes, they're going to their death. The UN at this point in time have the responsibility to inform people that it is not safe to return, rather than facilitating their return. When you're left between two choices - of either staying in a camp and dying from starvation or cold, or going to Assad detention centres and dying under torture - they choose the lesser evil.”

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Spokeswomen for the Syrian Association for Citizen’s Dignity (SACD)
25 Sep 2021 8 5
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