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WASHINGTON \u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is teasing unprecedented new economic actions against Iran as negotiations to end the nearly six-month war sputter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWatch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation of a country,\u201d Bessent said in a Thursday night interview with Newsmax\u2019s Rob Schmitt.<\/p>\n

Bessent has led the so-called Operation Economic Fury this year to support the Pentagon\u2019s Operation Epic Fury \u2014 and recalling how his efforts last year helped spark an inflation crisis inside Iran, which led to mass protests in December and January.<\/p>\n

The Treasury secretary did not specify how the US might further attempt to cut off Tehran after taking increasingly aggressive actions to sanction money-changers, cryptocurrency and other sources of revenue \u2014 coinciding with President Trump\u2019s naval blockade halting most oil output.<\/p>\n

Bessent\u2019s department is legally restricted from previewing specific sanctions actions \u2014 making it unclear what his new tactics might entail.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe kinetic war ended after several weeks, and we went from Epic Fury to Economic Fury. And at the president\u2019s orders, we have raised the level even again,\u201d he said on Newsmax.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the reason we are succeeding is because it is a one-two punch. People say, \u2018Well, you know, Cuba lasted a long time. Venezuela lasted a long time.\u2019 Venezuela immediately crumbled when we put the blockade on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that will keep anything from going in or out of the Iranian ports,\u201d Bessent said.<\/p>\n

Democrats who think Iran has never been stronger are \u201cuninformed, deranged, and have no idea what they\u2019re talking about,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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