US Weighs Sanctions on Syrian Oil Exports

摘要

The Obama administration is examiningways to sanction Syria’s oil sector to increaseeconomic pressure on the regime of Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad.“We’re continuing to look for other sanc-tioning opportunities perhaps also in the oiland gas sector,” said an official for the US StateDepartment. “But again, we are not at a stagewhere we can have any announcements onthat, but it is something that we’re looking atand that we’re working on.”