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AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Bessent promises 'economic D-Day' to cut off Iran's financial lifelines Mon Aug 24 18:17:37 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to launch what he called the "single greatest financial offensive ever" against Iran, a sweeping sanctions campaign that threatens any nation still doing business with Tehran. Bessent laid out the threat in a Financial Times op-ed published Sunday, framing the new economic pressure campaign in wartime language and warning that […] The post Bessent promises 'economic D-Day' to cut off Iran's financial lifelines appeared first on American Almanac .

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to launch what he called the "single greatest financial offensive ever" against Iran, a sweeping sanctions campaign that threatens any nation still doing business with Tehran. Bessent laid out the threat in a Financial Times op-ed published Sunday, framing the new economic pressure campaign in wartime language and warning that countries propping up Iran's economy face isolation from global capital markets. The op-ed came after a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, reached in June, collapsed last month, and as Tehran's own leadership appeared divided over how to respond. The message from the Treasury Department was blunt: the era of nations quietly buying Iranian petroleum,…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jude Russo) - What the Pentagon’s Top Brain Thinks About Iran Fri Jul 24 04:18:35 2026

Elbridge Colby gives little comfort to war skeptics. The post What the Pentagon’s Top Brain Thinks About Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs What the Pentagon’s Top Brain Thinks About Iran Elbridge Colby gives little comfort to war skeptics. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In a podcast released Thursday, Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of defense for policy and an old friend of The American Conservative, sat down for a tête-à-tête with his old schoolmate, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat.  Colby, for the folks keeping track back home, was the mastermind of the first Trump administration’s China-prioritizing defense policy and the author of The Strategy of Denial, a 2021 book further articulating his strategic vision for prioritizing Chinese containment. One of the pillars of his theory was that the Persian Gulf region is not a major priority for…Open

BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - It's Getting Serious: Trump Triple Dog Dares Iran To Keep Strait Of Hormuz Closed Mon Apr 6 16:54:23 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's threats to the Iranian regime escalated drastically over the holiday weekend, with the President issuing a rare "triple dog dare" for Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.