Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled on Thursday that President Donald Trump will use sanctions to cripple Iran’s Islamic regime and to bring Russia to the negotiating table to end its illegal war of aggression in Ukraine.
Bessent, who made the remarks while speaking to the Economic Club of New York, said that Trump was deploying aggressive sanctions against Iran for “immediate maximum impact.”
“We are going to shut down Iran’s oil sector and drone manufacturing capabilities,” Bessent said, adding that the administration also will cut off the regime’s access to the international financial system.
“Making Iran broke again will mark the beginning of our updated sanctions policy,” he added. “If I were an Iranian, I would get all my money out of the rial now.”
His remarks come after the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism allegedly tried on multiple occasions to assassinate Trump last year, including reports that they smuggled shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles into the U.S. […]
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