[US-Israel, Iran War Day #179] ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ – US Wages Economic War on Iran

Bessent says US economic pressure on Iran is working US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that Iran’s leaders were acknowledging the impact of economic pressure. “Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working,” Bessent wrote in a post on X. He cited President Masoud Pezeshkian as saying, “The war must come to an end at some point,” and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as saying Iran would not endure without economic growth, domestic production and adequate financial circulation. “Under President Trump, Treasury will continue to sever every economic lifeline sustaining this regime until…