{"id":182572,"date":"2019-01-23T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182572"},"modified":"2019-01-27T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T07:53:05","slug":"us-threatens-to-sanction-lebanon-if-they-participate-in-rebuilding-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182572","title":{"rendered":"US Threatens to Sanction Lebanon if They Participate in Rebuilding Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Leith Aboufadel &#8212; Global Research Jan 17, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_166372\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eastern-Damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166372\" class=\"wp-image-166372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eastern-Damascus.jpg\" alt=\"eastern Damascus. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">eastern Damascus. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The U.S. State Department allegedly sent a cable to the Lebanese Embassy in Washington that warned them against inviting Syria to the Arab Economic Summit in Beirut that is scheduled to take place this week, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-akhbar.com\/Politics\/264743\/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%86-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%20\">Al-Akhbar<\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported on Wednesday.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Al-Akhbar, Lebanon was not only warned against inviting Syria to the Arab Economic Summit, but Washington also threatened sanctions against Lebanon if they participate in any reconstruction efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The latter (U.S.) threatened Lebanon with sanctions if it participated in the reconstruction of Al-Sham (a reference to Damascus),\u201d Al-Akhbar claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe U.S. position was relayed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, in more than one way,\u201d they continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The alleged confidential cable allegedly read:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe urge Lebanon and all Arab League member states to refrain from sending an invitation to Syria. We also urge Lebanon not to take any steps that contribute to securing the financial interests of the Syrian regime. For instance, making investments or sending funds for reconstruction. Any financial or material support for the Assad regime or its supporters may be subject to American sanctions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The U.S. State Department has not issued a comment regarding these allegations; however, Washington has warned several nations in the past about participating in the reconstruction of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-threatens-to-sanction-lebanon-if-they-participate-in-rebuilding-syria\/5666033\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First U.S. proxies in the guise of Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS) brought Syria to the brink of ruin. Now the U.S. is threatening those who could help rebuild it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182574,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182572\/revisions\/182574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}