Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran's remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today: You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system.
Scott Bessent
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump administration; hedge-fund manager and founder of Key Square Group.
Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products," Bessent said on Fox News, adding that the attacks were contributing to an energy shock and putting upward pressure on prices globally.
We know who you are, we know where you are, and we will continue to take action together with our allies and partners until we have buried the head of the Iranian snake.
While we hope no more banks will need to be sanctioned, that ultimately depends on how quickly the international community comes to its senses and ceases support of the murderous Iranian regime.
Financial institutions continue to find out the hard way that we are serious about Operation Economic Outcast.
Real wages are up $1,000… the bottom 25% of wage earners, just like in your first term, are outperforming the top 25%… In the past year, that group had wage increases of 5.5% — three times what the top end has done.
Everyone in this audience and every news outlet should be ashamed for publishing that, taking a lying regime at face value.
One of the best allies that the Iranians have on this is the media because the media immediately publishes all the lies that they say.
Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature,