{"id":194690,"date":"2020-06-17T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=194690"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:18:45","slug":"syrian-community-in-us-sanction-against-syria-war-crime-political-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=194690","title":{"rendered":"Syrian community in US: Sanctions against Syria war crime, political racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, SANA-In a letter to US President Donald Trump, members of the Syrian community in the US affirmed that Washington is committing a war crime against the Syrian people through imposing the sanctions and the so-called \u201cCaesar Act\u201d, adding that those measures are considered as a form of racism and they must be immediately lifted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter was sent by Aziz Wehbe, President of the Syrian-American Society of Architecture on behalf of members of the Syrian community during a stand held Monday in Pennsylvania in protest against the sanctions.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-74.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-194692 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-74-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-74-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-74.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter read \u201cWe stand by our people in Syria who are facing the ugliest type of war which is the economic war led by the US government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter referred to tightening the measures on the Syrian people by the US occupation forces through looting their resources overtly and burning the wheat fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a stand held Monday in front of the Federal Building in Allentown, members of the Syrian community in the Pennsylvania condemned the so-called \u201cCaesar Act\u201d, indicating that it is an economic war and one of the forms of political racism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, SANA-In a letter to US President Donald Trump, members of the Syrian community in the US affirmed that Washington is committing a war crime against the Syrian people through imposing the sanctions and the so-called \u201cCaesar Act\u201d, adding that those measures are considered as a form of racism and they must be immediately lifted. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":194691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,6987,23,106],"tags":[22296,22295],"class_list":["post-194690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-expatriates","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-political-racism","tag-syrian-community-in-us-sanction-against-syria-war-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}