{"id":2649108,"date":"2026-08-24T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-scott-bessent-announces-details-of-unprecedented-campaign-against-iran-and-its-enablers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:06:26","slug":"watch-scott-bessent-announces-details-of-unprecedented-campaign-against-iran-and-its-enablers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-scott-bessent-announces-details-of-unprecedented-campaign-against-iran-and-its-enablers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Scott Bessent Announces Details of &#8216;Unprecedented Campaign&#8217; Against &#8216;Iran and Its Enablers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-scott-bessent-announces-details-of-unprecedented-campaign-against-iran-and-its-enablers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2649108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the initiation of &#8220;Operation Economic Outcast,&#8221; a campaign aimed at cutting off Iran\u2019s financial support and isolating the regime globally. The U.S.sanctions target over 60 entities involved in nuclear proliferation,missile technology,cyber operations,and oil smuggling,seeking to sever Iran\u2019s economic lifelines. Bessent emphasized that Iran faces a stark choice: complete international isolation or a chance to rejoin the global economy. The campaign is framed as a last effort to dismantle Iran\u2019s military capabilities and nuclear program, with warnings to countries like China that facilitate transactions with Iran-such actions will be met with secondary sanctions. Iran\u2019s officials responded critically, asserting their country&#8217;s resilience and independence from U.S. pressures. The U.S. aims to escalate pressure until Iran stands alone,with the secretary noting that patience is limited and the campaign is designed to collapse every option for Iran\u2019s regime.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday new sanctions aimed at cutting off the remaining economic lifelines allowing the Iranian regime to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, at President Trump\u2019s direction, the United States Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers,\u201d Bessent told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-admin-invokes-fdr-churchill-declaring-economic-d-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second World War<\/a>, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran\u2019s financial connections around the globe,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-orders-scott-bessent-cut-off-trade-hostile-nato-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bessent<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran\u2019s financial connections\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1fLyobUucu\">pic.twitter.com\/1fLyobUucu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecScottBessent\/status\/2091951925793013900?\">August 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Treasury secretary noted that Iran has murdered and maimed more service members and citizens than any other terrorist regime on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent asserted, \u201cIran now faces a very clear choice with only two paths before them: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to the Iranian regime should expect to  in the isolation of a withering regime,\u201d he said. \u201cLet me be clear, any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. dollar system. The clock just started ticking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bessent said his office is sanctioning over 60 entities, individuals, and vessels involved in illicit nuclear and missile technology, along with cyber operations and oil smuggling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/24\/bessent-dday-iran-secondary-sanctions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power,\u201d Bessent explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sustained campaign to collapse every last option for Iran,\u201d he said. \u201cRecall that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ronald-reagan-helped-bring-berlin-wall-30-years-ago-mr-gorbachev-tear-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berlin Wall<\/a> fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Trump has dismantled Iran\u2019s military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>We are now entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bessent-says-us-is-entering-the-endgame-in-iran\/\" title=\"Bessent says US is &#039;entering the endgame&#039; in Iran\">single greatest financial offensive<\/a> ever marshaled against\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecScottBessent\/status\/2091664440785502582?\">August 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Treasury secretary did not reveal the deadline for compliance, but said, \u201cWe do not have infinite patience here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axios highlighted, \u201cIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the government does not deny the economic shortages and stressed that Iran should end the war now, while it is in a position of strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also the country\u2019s chief negotiator, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mb_ghalibaf\/status\/2091930354064003343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on X<\/a> that the \u201cAmericans know that no one buys their bombast; the United States is not in an economic position to further restrict its relations with other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIran\u2019s trading partners, both in the media and through messages sent to us, have made it clear that they don\u2019t take these statements into account anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Bessent whether China would be subject to secondary sanctions if it continues to buy oil from Iran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bessent says China will get \u201cno free pass\u201d on Iran sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they facilitate transactions\u201d that turn Iranian oil into revenue, \u201cthey will be targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know who they are. They know who they are.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QfXmNHbUTu\">pic.twitter.com\/QfXmNHbUTu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Osint613\/status\/2091939424267333987?\">August 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is above this,\u201d Bessent replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they facilitate transactions\u201d that turn Iranian oil into revenue, into repression, \u201cthey will be targeted,\u201d the Treasury secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe know who they are. They know who they are. 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