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【标准美音 Editorial】05-01-2012
New Sanctions For Syria And Iran

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HINTS:
President Barack Obama
Syrian
Iranian
General Intelligence Directorate
the GID
Director Ali Mamluk
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security
Syriatel
Assad
Law Enforcement Forces
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Guard Cyber Defense CommandPresident Barack Obama has announced new sanctions against individuals and entities that use information and communications technologies to facilitate the Syrian and Iranian regimes' commission of grave human rights abuses against their people:
"These technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them. And it's one more step that we can take toward the day that we know will come, the end of the Assad regime that has brutalized the Syrian people, and allow the Syrian people to chart their own destiny."
Authorized by an executive order signed by President Obama, the sanctions relating to the misuse of communications technology were imposed on the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate, the GID, and its Director Ali Mamluk. Mr. Mamluk has overseen a communications program which has been implicated in the arbitrary arrests of regime opponents, mistreatment and death of detainees in custody, and has received technical and analytical help from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
The Syrian communications firm Syriatel was also designated for recording cell phone conversations and severing network connections in Syria at the behest of the Assad regime.
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, its Law Enforcement Forces, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Guard Cyber Defense Command were named in the new executive order as well.