🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇺🇳 🌐 Bessent Threatens Iranian UN Travel Exit
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on a Fox “pressure tactics” segment that he was “not sure how the Iranian representatives at the UN are gonna get home,” then vowed to “prosecute and execute” Iranian companies and bank accounts “every day and every week.” He was elaborating on the "Operation Economic Outcast" campaign ("secondary sanctions on shipping, aviation, gold, crypto, and offshore IRGC-linked accounts and luxury properties").
Iranian diplomats at the General Assembly still travel under U.N. host-country practice and third-country airlines; Washington has tightened aviation and finance pressure, not grounded every official flight home. Iran has lived under U.S. sanctions for decades; the new push is "broader secondary targeting."
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