Reform Party of Syria (RPS)

For Immediate Release

Washington DC - December 28, 2009

It has been reported by major news organizations that the US has objected to the delivery of the Toulouse-made Airbus planes for Syria. No word from the White House or the US State Department as to the reasons why.

RPS applauds the Obama administration and the Near East Department at State for its decisions to continue to exert economic pressure against the Assad regime for its behavior.

Recently, the regime has embarked on new policies to strengthen tyranny and weaken the US strategic postures in the region by showing that terror and resistance pay bigger dividends than cooperation and co-existence.

If a new bloc of countries that includes Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Iraq is formed, it will attempt to control sources of oil and its EU delivery mechanism, it will overwhelm the GCC and subject its rulers to possible extortion and threats, and it will threaten the US friends and allies in the region, including Israel.

Syria is bidding for time as it fakes the role of a cooperator and a peacemaker. In reality, Assad will neither cooperate nor make peace. His economy is sinking slowly under the weight of his own policies and it is important that the GCC countries take no action to shore-up his regime. The latest visits to the US by many rulers from the GCC, in addition to blocking the Airbus deal, is a good sign the US remains skeptical of Assad and his true intentions.