>>/155687/,  >>/155688/,  >>/155689/,  >>/155690/,  >>/155691/,  >>/155692/,  >>/155693/,  >>/155694/,  >>/155695/,  >>/155696/,  >>/155697/,  >>/155698/,  >>/155699/,  >>/155700/,  >>/155701/,  >>/155702/,  >>/155703/,  >>/155704/,  >>/155705/,  >>/155706/,  >>/155707/
(B)  to be a former government official of the former regime of Bashar al-Assad or a person who acted for or on behalf of such an official;
(C)  to have engaged in, or attempted to engage in, activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a significant risk of materially contributing to, the illicit production and international illicit proliferation of captagon;
(D)  to be responsible for or complicit in, to have directly or indirectly engaged in, or to be responsible for ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, instances in which a United States national ((i) as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22) or 8 U.S.C. 1408, or (ii) a lawful permanent resident with significant ties to the United States) went missing in Syria during the former regime of Bashar al-Assad;
(E)  to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of:
(1) the former regime of Bashar al-Assad;
(2) any activity described in subsections (a)(i)(A)–(a)(i)(D) of this section; or
(3) any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;
(F)  to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(G)  to be an adult family member of a person designated under subsections (a)(i)(A)–(a)(i)(D) of this section."; and
(ii) striking section 2(a) and inserting, in lieu thereof, the following:
"Sec. 2. (a)  The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and other officials of the United States Government as appropriate, is hereby authorized to impose on a foreign person any of the sanctions described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, upon determining that the person, on or after the date of this order:
(i)   is responsible for or complicit in, has directly or indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in, or financed the obstruction, disruption, or prevention of efforts to promote a Syria that is stable, unified, and at peace with itself and its neighbors, including:
(A)  the convening and conduct of a credible and inclusive Syrian-led constitutional process;
(B)  the preparation for and conduct of supervised elections, pursuant to the new constitution, that are free and fair and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability; or
(C)  the development of a Syrian government that is representative and reflects the will of the Syrian people;
(ii)  is an adult family member of a person designated under subsection (a)(i) of this section; or
(iii)  is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in, the expropriation of property, including real property, for personal gain or political purposes in Syria."
(b)  I additionally amend Executive Order 13606 of April 22, 2012 (Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria Via Information Technology), by removing the following text from the preamble:  "Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, as modified in scope and relied upon for additional steps in subsequent Executive Orders" and replacing it with:  "Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019, and relied upon for additional steps and further amended in subsequent Executive Orders."
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