Posted on 09/26/2026 12:41:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A former banker now with Treasury Department made a secretive trip, warning countries to end flights and cut off banks
A top U.S. Treasury Department official hopscotched across the Middle East and Europe this month with a warning to Iran’s trading partners: You either trade with Tehran or Washington.
The commercial strongarming is working.
In recent days, Iran has seen its airlines cut off from critical regional routes and its top commercial bank stopped from transacting in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, both actions that came on top of longstanding sanctions and the continuing U.S. naval blockade.
A growing distrust of Tehran by Gulf Arab states has made the pressure campaign more effective, as the U.S. works to end a war that has sent American fuel prices soaring. The administration is committed to the hardball strategy even as Iran dangles diplomatic overtures, including the offer of a seven-day halt to attacks in an effort to win economic relief.
“We’re seeing a new urgency from our partners,” said the Treasury official, Jonathan Burke, a former managing director at Citi in London. “They’re taking it very seriously.”
British lawyer Nigel Kushner, who has advised companies on Iran sanctions for two decades, said he had never seen such intense pressure applied on Iran’s banking and aviation sectors.
“The U.S. has achieved greater impact in a matter of weeks than during the lengthier campaigns commenced from 2010,” Kushner said.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, speaking this week at...
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Well Trump isn’t playing right. Iran is winning.
You just wrote 8 words, congratulations! Learned to type recently?
“Well Trump isn’t playing right. Iran is winning.”
I mean-
Iran has no navy, no army, no air power, no way to deliver nukes, 3 or 4 layers of dictators are now dead, no one’s allowed to back them, and now that includes Xi, so Trump takes advantage of them by twisting their arm?
Trump is not taking our media seriously. He should be aware that there are consequences to treating our anti American press with such disdain. They don’t want us winning. Even if the WSJ office is a mile from ground zero of an Iranian nuke target
Oh my paws and whiskers!, the Great Satan is also a bully! Where are my pearls?
Trump just threw the IRGC proposed 7 pt plan in the trash!
LOL!
There will be military action on these IRGC demons post midterms…..maybe even before.
https://www.memri.org/reports/montreal-islamist-imam-adil-charkaoui-who-regularly-calls-martyrdom-shedding-blood-allah
“The believer must journey through this world seeking security in this life and the Hereafter. This security is primarily attained through: Martyrdom. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘The martyr in the eyes of Allah has six privileges: he is forgiven at the first [drop of] blood shed; he sees his dwelling place in Paradise; he is protected from the punishment of the grave; he is spared the Great Terror (on the Day of Resurrection); a crown of honor is placed upon his head, a single ruby of which is better than this world and all that it contains; he is married to seventy-two beautiful, wide-eyed wives; and he intercedes for seventy members of his family.”
Islamists will find out that the above Montreal Imam is full of hog manure!
All it took was a new, bold, determined president, a one-in-hundred-million guy.
It must’ve seriously pained the WSJ to write this article, seeing how they want Trump to fail so badly in Iran.
Yeah. IF we lose the midterms, Trump has until January 27 to bomb them before a possible commie House could cut his funding. Two months. That is what his timeline would be.
Sweet reason and appeals to moral principles do not work
with the fanatics that make up IRGC or the ayatollahs that are
the putative heads of state in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Hard to keep track of all the players even with a score card.
Hunger and privation tend to steer the hearts and minds of
most everybody in the world, sooner or later, but we have
no sure predictions as to what desperate people might do.
“Well Trump isn’t playing right. Iran is winning.”
too many paid ChiCom/Russkie trolls here are expressing that exact same sentiment, so it wasn’t obvious on the face of it that your statement was sarcasm .... try adding the fictional html /sarc tag next time ...
They can’t. Anything they propose will not get through the Senate. And Trump would just veto it.
They won’t be anywhere near overriding that.
No. It’s a prediction. We don’t know. I do know Trump does not let cowardice get in his way. If there’s leverage there he’ll use it
I wonder what China was doing here for an overnight this week, besides seeing Trump’s montage vid one half of which was fighters and bombers, the other half saying we are not going to be communist, then go into see the declaration and the constitution.
That’s prob just ill-timed by a bumbling caricature known as President Trump. Ya
You saw this, no?
“The Warning: Bessent stated that any foreign company, bank, or country facilitating trade or money laundering for Iran risks secondary sanctions and being completely cut off from the global U.S. dollar-based financial network.”
Well Trump isn’t playing right. Iran is winning.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
And I’ll bet you have impeccable sources for that assessment. Care to share that info so those being misled can get all the sad details?
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