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Mark Dubowitz, FDD executive editor and director of its Iran Energy Project, said important sanctions bills have recently been introduced in both houses of the US Congress, but that the most consequential steps towards tough sanctions will have to be made by the European states most deeply involved in Syria's energy industry.
"Hopefully we'll see the president get up and make the statement everyone's been waiting for for months and months – that Assad has got to go," Dubowitz said by phone from Washington.
"It's months too late, but it's something that needs to be said now and unequivocally while thousands of Syrians are being mowed down in the streets."
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