Abigail Hauslohner
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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So the Treasury did announce this raft of new sanctions, but really the news here was what he didn't announce.
You know, Scott Bessant said we were gonna see an economic D-Day launched against Iran at dawn.
But actually, this was more of a threat of a so-called economic D-Day, meaning the US already sanctions Iran pretty expensively.
Expansively, what Scott Bassant was saying on Monday was, you know, we are now ready to expand that and take stronger action against other countries and entities in other countries that are doing business with Iran despite these sanctions.
But he couched this as more of a warning and a, you know, an opportunity for other countries to sort of get their act in order.
Order.
No, he didn't provide any timeline.
You know, he just said we're giving everyone the opportunity to remedy bad behavior.
And I thought really notably he he actually acknowledged how massive.
implementing an actual sort of economic D-Day would be.
He said, why would I want to blow up the global financial system?
And so that obviously raises a lot of questions about how far the US is even willing to go to implement these threats.
Well, Iran trades largely with China, uh the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Iraq, Russia, among other countries.
Those were its largest trading partners before the Iran War.
You know, the UAE said uh just last week that it was cutting off trade with Iran, but these are major countries.
China is the United States' third largest trading partner.
UAE and Turkey are US allies.
So I think there are a lot of questions as to
How far the US is willing to go.
Well, they don't have a lot of options.
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