🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington is reportedly preparing its toughest economic strike yet against Tehran.
Bessent says the new sanctions will cut Iran’s remaining financial lifelines.
But China still buys most of Iran’s oil and handles much of the payments.
To really hurt Tehran, Washington would likely have to hit major Chinese banks, turning pressure on Iran into a direct clash with Beijing.
With Trump and Xi due to meet next month, that’s a risky move.
Iran has already survived years of maximum pressure, military strikes and sanctions.
Its shadow fleet, alternative banking channels and leverage over the Strait of Hormuz give it plenty of ways to absorb more pain.
Good luck making this one the blow that finally collapses the regime.
Source: CCN Live / Writer: Lucas
Operation Economic Outcast unleashed. An unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining economic lifeline sustaining Iran.
America is entering the endgame with the single greatest financial offensive ever mounted against an adversary.
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gives Iran a major economic ultimatum, declaring the regime can choose between isolation and economic collapse or a return to normalcy and an opportunity to rejoin the global economy.
The announcement marks the launch of an aggressive, new financial strategy aimed at squeezing Tehran's remaining economic lifelines.
"Iran now faces a very clear choice, with only two paths before them. Complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy."
"Today, we are launching Operation Economic Outcasts to foreclose every other option available to the Iranian regime."
In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.
President Trump has taken action that his predecessors have long deferred. Under his leadership, America is no longer managing the Iranian threat. We are ending it. Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to Tehran should expect to share in the isolation of a withering regime.
The Treasury could use its near $1 trillion General Account to help fund its recently announced plans to increase purchases of government bonds, according to two senior Treasury officials.
Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term bond yields. The Treasury surprised markets last week with an announcement that it would be doubling the size of buybacks of off-the-run securities on the long end from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNBC such operations could be even larger than the new higher minimum.
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