{"id":408430,"date":"2011-04-29T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/us-sanctions-target-syria-assets\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:11:00","slug":"us-sanctions-target-syria-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/us-sanctions-target-syria-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions target Syria assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"44.3821656051\"><span><span>29 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>14:11 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama is to sign an order imposing sanctions on three top Syrian officials, Syria&#8217;s intelligence agency and Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions freeze any assets the groups have in US jurisdictions and bar Americans from business with them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama authorised the penalties in the wake of a bloody crackdown on anti-government dissent that has left some 500 people dead, US officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the Syrian officials targeted have not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Syrian capital Damascus and around the country on Friday, in protest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said troops opened fire on demonstrators in the city of Deraa, where the unrest began in mid-March, reportedly killing 15 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13245165\" title=\"US sanctions target Syria assets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US sanctions target Syria assets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 April 2011 Last updated at 14:11 ET US President Barack Obama is to sign an order imposing sanctions on three top Syrian officials, Syria&#8217;s intelligence agency and Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":408431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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