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The Assad regime and the United States say that they are prepared to co-operate on a plan to rescue Lebanon’s electricity supply, in an indication of another shift in Middle East politics led by President Biden.

Syria was “ready to help” with the plan to import Egyptian gas via Jordan and Syria, a Damascus official said after a visit by Lebanese ministers.
The proposal, announced to the surprise of regional observers last month by Dorothy Shea, the US ambassador to Lebanon, would involve the partial lifting of US sanctions on Damascus.

Presidents Obama and Trump stuck closely to an EU-US position that sanctions should be tightly patrolled so long as Assad was in power, but Biden is reviewing Washington’s policy in Syria...Read More