Overview

• The order takes effect July 1 and dismantles US sanctions architecture on Syria by revoking a 2004 national emergency and five related executive orders.
• Targeted restrictions remain in place against Bashar al-Assad, his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, chemical weapons actors, ISIS affiliates and Iranian proxies.
• It directs the Secretary of State to review the terrorism designations of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism for possible delisting.
• Full repeal of legislative sanctions such as the Caesar Act will require Congressional action, even as the European Union has already lifted its own measures.
• The policy shift aims to end Syria’s financial isolation and channel reconstruction investment under strict counterterrorism and minority-protection benchmarks.