The Syrian economy is being crippled by foreign sanctions and the government is “slowly disintegrating” under anti-regime protests, a leading Syrian businessman told the BBC on Sunday.
Faisal al-Qudsi, the son of a former Syrian president who was heavily involved in the country’s economic liberalisation, said sanctions were affecting the entire country, not just President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“The apparatus of the government is slowly disintegrating and it’s almost non-existent in trouble spots like Homs, Idlib, Deraa,” he told the BBC World Service in London.
“Courts are not there, police are not interested in any sort of crime and it is affecting the government very, very badly, every day it continues.”
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