Scott Bessent: “We've become addicted to this government spending, and there's going to be a detox period”

If you insist on doing business with them—either transferring money, buying oil, doing seaborne ship transport—then the US Treasury and the US government, they will put its full might and force towards enforcing against you.

This is a sustained campaign to collapse every last option for Iran.

Every facilitator that keeps the regime afloat is putting a target on its own back.

Must be shuttered and dark," Bessent said about Iran's Bank Melli.