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Eliot Engel: “This legislation, passed into law last December, mandates the most sweeping sanctions on Assad's enablers.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2020
This legislation, passed into law last December, mandates the most sweeping sanctions on Assad's enablers.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel highlights the sanctions imposed by the Caesar Act on those supporting Assad.

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