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"The measures by the United States are one in a series of sanctions imposed by the consecutive American administrations against the Syrian people, as part of its regional plans, whose priority is to serve the Israeli interest," state-run Syrian TV reported.
"Any hostile act against Syria is an American contribution to the Israeli aggression against Syria and the Arabs."
The report came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama imposed new sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other senior Syrian officials. The sanctions are part of an effort to stop the regime's fierce crackdown on anti-government protesters, who started demonstrating in mid-March. The crackdown has led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests.
The sanctions also target two top Iranian officials whose unit was a "conduit for Iranian material support" to Syrian intelligence, according to a copy of Obama's executive order issued by the White House.
But, the TV report said, "the sanctions have not and will not affect Syria's independent decision making, and its resistance in the face of continuous American attempts to control its national decision making and the completion of comprehensive reform."
Obama is expected to touch on Syria Thursday in a speech highlighting his administration's revised policies toward the changing region.
He will pledge U.S. economic assistance to Egypt and Tunisia and will touch on the other Middle East-North Africa flashpoints -- the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Libya, Iran and the recent killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The speech comes nearly two years after a 2009 address in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, by Obama that called for "a new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world.
On Sunday, clashes between pro-Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces erupted along Israel's borders and occupied territories, leaving at least 12 dead on a Palestinian mourning day marking the birth of the Jewish state.
Two protesters were killed and 170 were wounded Sunday when fighting broke out in the Golan Heights area, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said. And at least 10 were killed and 112 others were injured in clashes along the line of demarcation with Lebanon, Lebanon's state news agency reported.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops fired on demonstrators who were illegally crossing from Lebanon and Syria and damaging "security infrastructure." But Syrian and Lebanese officials criticized what they said were Israeli attacks, state media reported.