US Treasury chief Bessent moved to military base after Iranian threats, sources say

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-treasury-chief-bessent-moved-010010728.html ^ | 11-10-2026 | David Lawder and Kanishka Singh

[Drago]

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has recently moved from his Washington, DC residence to a US military base ‌after Iranian threats against his life, two people familiar with the matter said ‌on Tuesday.

The New York Times first reported the move. A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a ​memo seen by Reuters late last month that Iranian plots against US personnel and American citizens had reached an advanced stage.

Bessent has led the US sanctions and economic pressure campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Economic Outcast, since August to try to push Tehran to end attacks on shipping and ‌reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The ⁠crucial waterway has been largely closed since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28...

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TOPICS: Iran; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bessent; iran; treasury

[Drago]

Meanwhile "peace talks" drag on...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Meanwhile "peace talks" drag on...

I'm very happy Trump attacked Iran and kidnapped Venezuela's president.

Trajan, Rome's greatest or second greatest emperor, remarked that if the empire is not expanding, it's contracting and on the defensive and decline, and he was correct.

The Persian uprising against the terrible mullahs occurred in December 2025 and January 2026, in large part, because of the Trump election and the confidence it brought to the Persian population who have suffered enough under the Ayatollah since 1979. The mullahs and IRGC, in return, cracked down and killed 10,000 to 50,000 Persian civilians.

Trump knows, to be historically relevant, he can't sit on his hands and hope and pray for the best. He has to be a man of action.

The United States’ subsequent military campaign against Iranian targets were the kind of decisive moves Trajan would have recognized. What is clear is that Trump has refused the default of managed decline, like Great Britain, which is great.

[Flaming Conservative]

There never going to stop til they’re made to stop. Trump needs to bomb them into the stone age before the demonrats take control.

[spetznaz]

I agree. The midterms are over (so that overhang of damage has already happened), Iran has been a threat for a very long time, when the Democrats take over Iran will be relegated to the back burner for a long time, and I doubt it’s possible to have peace with leadership that takes adversarial action against the States and Israel as a divine right.

[SaveFerris]

Yep

From what I saw yesterday apparently Saudi Arabia
and another Gulf State asked him to stop

The Crazy Mullahs won’t ever give up

Roughly 53 days to go until the
Democrat Insurrection Apocalypse

[VAFreedom]

this is what happen when we tell the world that the conflict is over.

iran’s green light to keep pounding on our stuff.

[Angelino97]

A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a ​memo...

When American intelligence says Iran has no nukes, war hawks scoff.

When American intelligence says Iran is on the warpath, warhawks treat it as gospel truth.

Is American intelligence reliable? Seems it all depends on whether it's confirming what one already believes.

[Candor7]

There never going to stop til they’re made to stop. Trump needs to bomb them into the stone age before the demonrats take control.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I want to see the IRGC deploy poisonous gas against their Peoples.

A half dozen nukes in response would sort the baftards out for good.

[madison10]

Not exactly on the ssme topic... Just about bombing things. Why don’t we kill the hordes coming to our border? Why isn’t the border treated like one? Trump is still president. Who cares about the “princess” elected in Texas? That isn’t her border.

If we started acting like we owned it, saying we will shoot to kill regardless of age or sex NOW, maybe they would stay home.

[Raycpa]

there have always been threasts. Why now?

[Sir_Humphrey]

"Trajan, Rome's greatest or second greatest emperor, remarked that if the empire is not expanding...."

But we are not an empire. We are not seeking to conquer other countries like Rome did.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

But we are not an empire. We are not seeking to conquer other countries like Rome did.

Geographically, the American Empire is larger than the Roman Empire (but not larger than the Russian Empire).

Not only is America an empire, it's the most important and consequential empire in history (1. American, 2. British, 3. Roman).

[Sir_Humphrey]

"Geographically, the American Empire is larger than the Roman Empire (but not larger than the Russian Empire)."

What countries have we conquered? Sounds like you're confused as to that the word empire means. America proves you can be a world power without being an empire.

[yldstrk]

I don’t give a rat’s ass what Saudi Arabia asked. Saudi Arabia caused 911 and Saudi Arabia can whistle Dixie for all I care. Nuke Iran and be done with it.

[xenia]

“A government that spends its wealth on foreign wars will soon find its own people in want.” - Thomas Jefferson

[bert]

No, Radical Saudis were the culprit. The government was not responsible

[pas]

Trump will issue and angry Truth Social post about how he will destroy Iran.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

What countries have we conquered? Sounds like you're confused as to that the word empire means. America proves you can be a world power without being an empire.

The United States started off as 13 colonies east of the Appalachian mountains (an insignificant nation, as the Europeans said) and swept across an entire continent in the next 100 years.

The Roman Republic's sweep across the Mediterranean was impressive, but it amassed less land area than the USA, and avoided the Germanic areas in the north.

Russian expansion, under the Romanovs, was even more impressive than the USA.

I put the Roman Empire third because they founded the basics of modern civilization (concrete, shoes, daily baths, universal literacy). Then nothing happened for 1200 years until the British Empire ushered in the industrial revolution, which ended the permanent human condition of slavery and ceased persistent infant mortality.

And then came in America which brought the medical, aviation, communications, computer, and digital revolution we know now.

Now that I've read my own thesis, let me revise my rankings: (1. British, 2. American, 3. Roman).

[kaktuskid]

My suggestion…take out that “hole” that their Magic Mahdi is supposed to come out of when the world ends. Kill off their Magic Santa.

[SaveFerris]

I hear ya