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Bessent: Iran in 'death throes,' US allies will support efforts to economically 'asphyxiate' IRGC

The operation has been met with "a great show of support," Bessent told reporters. "What I can tell you is many of our allies came forward and said we will do whatever is necessary."

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference, as finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 countries meet in Asheville, North Carolina, US, September 1, 2026.
US forces operating in the Strait of Hormuz, July 17, 2026.

US sanctions are hurting Iran, but economic collapse alone may not topple regime, expert says

US President Donald Trump reacts as he speaks to the media with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent behind him, on the day of a NATO leaders' summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026.

Trump says Iran is 'in deep trouble' as US maintains blockade of Strait of Hormuz

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks with cryptocurrency executives in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington DC, US, August 19, 2026.

How will Trump's economic 'D-Day' plan impact Iran's nuclear, ballistic missile threat? - analysis


Republicans pull back on Iran deal legislation in setback for Trump

Democrats and Republicans both seem intent on satisfying Trump's appetite for action, cognizant that their failure to pass anything by the new year will likely incur his wrath and blame.

Missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran

Former Turkish minister wanted for violating Iran sanctions

Official charged with conspiring to use the US financial system to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions on behalf of the Government of Iran.

Turkey's former Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan waves as he arrives at a handover ceremony in Ankara

Trump warns 'emboldened' Iran to comply with nuclear deal

"You would have thought they would have said 'thank you United States. We really love you very much.'"

US President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in an arena in Youngstown, Ohio, US July 25, 2017.

Iran counts votes after big turnout in presidential election

For Iranians, the election presents a stark choice between competing visions of the country.

Electoral employees sits next to ballot boxes before closing vote for the presidential election in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2017.

Trump waives Iran nuclear sanctions - what next?

US President Donald Trump needs a real strategy for dealing with Iran, says a former Israeli Atomic Energy Commission official.

A staff member removes the Iranian flag from the stage during the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria July 14, 2015

How the 2016 US election is upending pro-Israel orthodoxies

Welcome to the 2016 presidential election, when the conventional pro-Israel wisdom has been turned upside down.

Trump and Sanders

Republicans or Democrats: Who's better for Israel?

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Analysis: Iran's elite Guards to gain regional, economic power in post-sanctions era

Iran is expecting an economic boom in the post-sanctions era and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps will be a beneficiary.

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards take part in a military parade to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran

After US exercises restraint on new sanctions, Iran reveals new missile silo

The nuclear deal extends the ban on Iran's ballistic missile activity for eight years.

Iran tests new precision-guided ballistic missile‏ [File]

‘Increased military aid for Israel is a contradiction’

Interior Minister and Vice Premier Silvan Shalom said on Monday that easing sanctions on Iran would be premature and result in continued confrontation with the international community.

Silvan Shalom