{
  "id": 4302744,
  "title": "'Liar, liar, pants on fire': Ghalibaf mocks US treasury secretary over fuel claims",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/liar-liar-pants-on-fire-ghalibaf-mocks-us-treasury-secretary-over",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-29T23:12:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Middle East Eye",
    "slug": "middle-east-eye",
    "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/liar-liar-pants-fire-ghalibaf-mocks-us-treasury-secretary-over-fuel"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mocking US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over his claim that the US \"guided 130 million barrels out over the past 14 days\" against Iran's \"zero\", Iran's Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf declared, \"Liar, liar, pants on fire.\" He reposted Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's article titled \"Scott Bessent Fails to Gaslight the Market,\" in which Krugman criticized Bessent's market management and policy credibility. Ghalibaf then turned his attention to US sovereign debt markets, tweeting, \"Liar, liar, yields on fire.\" He urged Bessent to retract Moody's report indicating $130+ billion in war costs and questioned the extent of Jane Street's shorting of oil for the US in a single futures roll.",
  "summary": "'Liar, liar, pants on fire': Ghalibaf mocks US treasury secretary over fuel claims Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has mocked US treasury secretary Scott Bessent for his claim that the US “guided 130 million barrels out over the past 14 days” against Iran’s “zero”. “Liar, liar, pants on fire,” Ghalibaf wrote on X and then reposted an article by Nobel laureate economist…",
  "key_points": [
    "Iran's Speaker of Parliament Ghalibaf called US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a liar",
    "Ghalibaf referenced Nobel laureate Paul Krugman's criticism of Bessent",
    "Ghalibaf questioned US sovereign debt markets and oil shorting by Jane Street"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}