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Washington targets Iran’s financial and petroleum networks

Summary by Financial World
The Trump administration’s planned financial offensive against Iran is designed to reach beyond Tehran, placing foreign banks, shipping companies, petroleum buyers and governments under pressure to choose between Iranian business and access to the United States. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the initiative in sweeping terms. “At dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an advers…

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US Treasury Secretary Bessent announced the launch of "Operation Economic Isolation" to isolate Iran from the global financial system. Under the sanctions, financial institutions supporting Iran will be removed from the dollar system, and their oil revenues will be blocked. Bessent stated that countries have been given time to cease their activities, otherwise unilateral steps will be taken.

[Washington, Kyodo] U.S. Treasury Secretary Benicent said at a press conference at the Treasury Department on the 24th that the U.S. would launch a fierce economic offensive against Iran's global financial network.

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Financial World broke the news on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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