HEADLINE: Syrian President al-Sharaa Attends UN General Assembly, Lobbies US Officials for Sanctions Relief, Including the Caesar Act GUEST NAME: Ahmad Sharawi SUMMARY: Ahmad Sharawi discusses Syrian President al-Sharaa's unprecedented UN visit to lobby
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Syrian President al-Sharaa Attends UN General Assembly, Lobbies US Officials for Sanctions Relief, Including the Caesar Act
GUEST NAME: Ahmad Sharawi
SUMMARY: Ahmad Sharawi discusses Syrian President al-Sharaa's unprecedented UN visit to lobby for sanctions relief, including the Caesar Act, despite concerns regarding human rights and necessary guarantees for justice.
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| 0:23.7 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. I'm very pleased to be joined by Akhmer Shorari of the |
| 0:29.6 | Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who's helped me understand the very difficult to understand |
| 0:36.8 | situation in Syria, |
| 0:38.2 | the darkness visible of the Civil War these decades |
| 0:40.9 | has obscured all clarity to me, to my eyes. |
| 0:45.4 | And therefore, even more challenging |
| 0:47.8 | is what I'm seeing right now at Reuters. |
| 0:51.7 | Headline, Syria's Shahra in New York, |
| 0:54.9 | where news call for U.S. to formally drop sanctions. |
| 0:58.2 | That is striking enough, |
| 1:00.2 | but there is a photograph accompanying this |
| 1:02.3 | taken at the Ladi, New York Palace Hotel |
| 1:06.2 | in these last hours, |
| 1:08.2 | showing the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Rubio, shaking hands with |
| 1:13.3 | Syrian President, self-appointed president, Ahmed Al-Shara, at the hotel on the sidelines, |
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