“It is a step that supports the goals of national security and foreign policy of the United States of America,” with this phrase, US President Donald Trump described his executive decision he signed on the last day of June 2025, and ruled to lift sanctions on Syria, while praising its new government, and emphasizing Washington’s support for a united and stable Syria and lives in peace with itself and its neighbors.
The executive decision comes to embody the announcement by the American President from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in mid -May, when he met at the time with Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara, in a scene that depicts the United States’ new strategy on Syria, which is moving from the eastern camp, and the period of the Baath Party’s rule, to the Western camp led by the United States and draws its new borders in the eastern Mediterranean.
Washington supports the interests of its allies
Washington is no longer in the interest of Syria to remain a vital space for Russia and Iran allied against Western interests, and allied with China, the most prominent competition for the United States, for the latter’s uniqueness with a mono monopoly in which the world leads.
Iran specifically used the Syrian scene to threaten the interests of the United States and its allies in the Middle East region, these allies who had the largest role in persuading the United States of America to complete its support for the root and large change that occurred in Syria, by supporting the stability of the new scene economically and politically, to accelerate the process of lifting sanctions, and political openness to the Sharia president and his government.
Without lifting the penalties, the possibility of chaos will remain in place, which restores the direct threat to Trump’s allies and friends. Hence the first announcement of the US President on the lifting of sanctions from Riyadh and the meeting of the US and Syrian Foreign Minister to coordinate in Ankara, which clearly reflects the role of the two capital and their position in drawing the landmarks of the new Middle East.
The motives of the American administration and its foreign policies
Trump adopted a large part of his administration during his first presidency and then the second is the principle of national realism “American First”, which is not concerned with exporting democracy and principles and forcing states to their commitment, and instead focuses on concluding deals that belong to more gains on America and its allies, and this theory comes to end the radical version of the principle of creative chaos “Creative Chaos “which dismantles the systems and rebuilds the region by investing in crises and prolonging its time.
The principle of the new American administration is evident in the position of Washington and its steps towards the change that occurred in Syria, where it supported the efforts of the new ruling to end the conflict and replace stability, then continued to lift the sanctions in response to the interests of its partners in the region.
The American President announced it more than once, that he responds to the rapid lifting of sanctions on Syria based on regional mediation efforts, with his frankness by emphasizing the impact of this in supporting American interests in the region, as well as supporting the interests of Washington allies and friends at the expense of its competitors.
Economy and stability
The United States realizes that moving the wheel of the economy in Syria by lifting sanctions is the closest way to development and stability, not in Syria; Rather, in the region in which economic activity and prosperity in the Arabian Peninsula will communicate with Turkey, and it can only be with the stability and integration of Syria in this economic and vital developmental space of the United States of America, and supporting Washington’s interests in the region.
“The reintegration of Syria into the regional economy” is the title that Turkey and Saudi Arabia agrees with the lifting of US sanctions on Syria, and it is the gateway to achieving regional stability of the United States’ allies, and thus for American interests that want to expand its vital scope at the expense of its competitors in the world.
The revitalization of the Syrian economy is part of the process of ensuring security stability in the region. With the lifting of sanctions, investments will begin to open the doors of opportunities for thousands of young people in Syria, away from the war that they recruited and were a reason to deplete the region, and economic and development opportunities will be a reason to end chaos and tools, which ends Iran’s dreams to return to Syria and Lebanon.
Thanks to what the economy will achieve from stability opportunities; The Syrian economy and its vital resources will integrate after lifting the sanctions with the economies of the region, and Syria will be an extension of the various economic, investment and development sectors with Türkiye and the Gulf states in the north and south.
Incentives are not free
The executive decision comes today after a month and a half of the announcement of the lifting of US sanctions on Syria as part of a stimulus carried out by Washington to make the experience of political transition in Syria.
The Trump administration was explicit in defining the controls and conditions it wanted from the new rule in Syria, and the Sharia president was always aware that the success of his project in Syria needed positive interaction with the West in general, and with the United States in particular.
Some American conditions intersect with the Sharia President and its goals, for example, there is no disagreement against combating the Islamic State and ending its presence in the region, which helps President Trump to implement his promises to withdraw American forces from Syria, and helps him to achieve his goals in Iraq, foremost of which is the dismantling of the Iraqi popular crowd.
While there are some American conditions in which the Sharia president needs more time, or he is trying to discuss it with the United States to reach understandings about it, the position on Israel is complicated, and it has many details.
Nevertheless; The American position on the support of the Syrian government is clear, with political openness, recognition and the lifting of sanctions, and this support, even if it is conditional, but it motivates the Sharia president and his team and helps him to achieve American conditions and controls.
On the other hand, the US administration does not hide that it is closely monitoring, and that it is constantly testing the performance of the authority subject to evaluation in every step it takes, and that the authority in Damascus must strengthen the comprehensive judgment and move away from exclusion and marginalization, to end extremism and fight extremist groups, as well as showing a practical and clear position on sensitive issues in the forefront of the issue of foreign fighters in Syria.
The US administration says what the European Union countries said before: The lifting of sanctions is subject to continuous evaluation, and the sanctions that are lifted, which can be re -imposed again.
It is believed that the rapid lifting of sanctions on Syria is a motivation, encouragement and support, but on the other hand it places the ball in the stadium of the Syrian authority, so the state of the European and American West says: The Syrian authority has given the full opportunity to make the political transition in the country a success, and it cannot invoke any excuse if it failed in any step you take.
Accordingly, the lifting of sanctions will be an opportunity and responsibility, and it will open the doors and impose entitlements, and the United States and its European allies will not only be supporters, observers and questions, but regional partners will have a role in that, led by Türkiye and Saudi Arabia.
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