The measures, which freeze any U. S. assets the Syrians may have and forbid U. S. business dealings with them, may have little immediate effect on al-Assad.

这些措施包括冻结这些叙利亚人在美国的所有资产，禁止美国与他们进行任何生意往来，不过可能不会对阿萨德立即产生影响。

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And Mister Obama strongly condemned Syria's president,Bashar al-Assad.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is offering to mediate between the West and Iran and diplomatic initiative that could further help in Syria's own rapprochement with the U.S.and Europe.

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"When you consider the situation of Bashar al-Assad, he himself is hunted down by a tribunal, now sitting in the Hague, investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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Security Council resolutions that many other nations said could have pushed al-Assad to stop the killing.

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Coming up, President Obama said it again today: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go.

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At one time, Erdogan and al-Assad had close ties, but the war has made them antagonists.

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