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WASHINGTON \u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the start of the \u201cOperation Economic Outcast\u201d campaign against Iran to \u201ctighten the noose\u201d around the regime and warned countries against doing business with Tehran.<\/p>\n

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The Trump admin aims to choke off revenue streams to the Iranian regime by pressuring secondary countries to stop doing oil, energy and business deals with Tehran.<\/p>\n

Bessent revealed that President Trump has been burning the phone lines with world leaders with specific demands and stressed that America \u201cdoes not have infinite patience\u201d for those countries to comply.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president is making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime. We are already seeing results,\u201d Bessent said, without naming any specific countries.<\/p>\n

As the six-month old war with Iran has dragged on, the Trump admin has sought has teased an \u201cEconomic D-Day\u201d approach.<\/p>\n

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As an example, Bessent warned that countries have been told to shutter Bank Melli branches within their borders, referring to the largest government-owned commercial bank in Iran.<\/p>\n

Bessent said the operation will \u201cforeclose every other option available,\u201d calling it a \u201czero leakage approach\u201d that will ensure the regime will have \u201cno minimal breathing space\u201d to rebuild.<\/p>\n

\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 he said.<\/p>\n

The Treasury secretary teased a wave of sanctions after his press conference and that a major financial institution will be sanctioned by the end of this week, calling his approach \u201ceconomic asphyxiation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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