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.

VOA: special.2011.05.21

Assad would be more than eager to play the role of a mediator between the U.S.and anybody.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

President Assad praised U.S.President Barack Obama in his interview with La Repubblica, saying that "he has shown himself to be a man of his word.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Mr Lavrov said the opposition's demand for Mr Assad's removal was "wrong" and their refusal to talk to the Assad government a "dead end".

BBC: Syria faces 'hell' if no deal to end crisis - UN envoy

The now irreversible breach between Mr Erdogan and Syria's president, Bashar Assad, may have revived Mr Assad's friendship with the PKK. Growing discord between Iraq's Kurds in Erbil and the Shia-led central government in Baghdad is another worry.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and the Kurds

Mr Erdogan's secular critics echo Mr Assad's claims that he is playing a sectarian card by propping up Islamists across the Middle East.

ECONOMIST: Turks fret about Syria, but few of them really want a fight