Mustafa Kamal ran away from the press conference after a man interrupted and called him out: “Hum Iran America ki jang rukwane mein lage hain, hamare 14 bachay jal ke mar gaye, aur aapke yahan tabsaray khatam nahi ho rahe.”
A video shows Syria’s president using a Visa card, one day after the US removed the country from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list.
US sanctions had banned Syrians from accessing the global banking system for more than 15 years.
"Will that be cash or credit, Mr. President?"
President Ahmed al-Sharaa pays with a Visa card in the heart of Old Damascus, joined by Central Bank Governor Mohammed Safwat Raslan.
For more than fifteen years, this simple transaction was impossible.
Today, in the oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world, Syria's return to the global financial system became a fact.