The U.S. Treasury Department announced a new round of secondary sanctions Monday aimed at countries that continue to do business with Iran, a move by the Trump administration to exact "economic asphyxiation" on Tehran.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the launch of Operation Economic Outcast, an effort to sever the financial lifeline that sustains Iran's regime, which the United States has accused of using illicit revenues to fund global terrorism."Iran now faces a very clear choice, with only two paths before them: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back t...
US aims for ‘economic asphyxiation’ of Iranian regime with new wave of secondary sanctions
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