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The United States tightens the economic noose around Iran with “unprecedented” measures

The Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, assures that he will apply economic sanctions against Tehran “as have never been seen”

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The United States tightens the economic noose around Iran with “unprecedented” measures

The war against Iran has become a dead-end for US President Donald Trump. The latest move to try to escape a conflict in which he is using up his political capital is to tighten the financial noose around Tehran. The United States plans to subject the Iranian regime to "economic isolation such as has never been seen before in the world," according to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday.

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