{"id":200768,"date":"2020-08-22T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=200768"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:48:58","slug":"british-journalist-trumps-justifications-for-maintaining-sanctions-on-syria-hypocritical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=200768","title":{"rendered":"British journalist: Trump\u2019s justifications for maintaining sanctions on Syria hypocritical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, SANA \u2013 British journalist Patrick Cockburn criticized the insistence of American President Donald Trump to continue imposing sanctions on Syria in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in the Independent, Cockburn pointed out that the justifications of American administration to impose sanctions against Syria, particularly the so-called Caesar Act, are hypocritical, as the act affects the Syrian people\u2019s livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Syria and its allies have already won the war militarily, but \u201cUS wishful thinking does have the potential to further devastate the lives of millions of Syrians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hybah\/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, SANA \u2013 British journalist Patrick Cockburn criticized the insistence of American President Donald Trump to continue imposing sanctions on Syria in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In an article published in the Independent, Cockburn pointed out that the justifications of American administration to impose sanctions against Syria, particularly the so-called Caesar Act, are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200768"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}