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Bessent Flails as Trump’s Phony “Economic D-Day” on Iran Is Exposed

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  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggled to explain how the Trump administration’s vague, toothless threat of more sanctions against Iran—which the president is calling an “economic D-Day”—was anything like the actual D-Day. Bessent held a Monday afternoon p...S1
  • Bessent's Iran Economic D-Day And Much Ado About NothingS2
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Bessent Flails as Trump’s Phony “Economic D-Day” on Iran Is Exposed

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggled to explain how the Trump administration’s vague, toothless threat of more sanctions against Iran—which the president is calling an “econo…

Bessent Flails as Trump’s Phony “Economic D-Day” on Iran Is Exposed

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What to know

  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggled to explain how the Trump administration’s vague, toothless threat of more sanctions against Iran—which the president is calling an “economic D-Day”—was anything like the actual D-Day. Bessent held a Monday afternoon p...S1
  • Bessent's Iran Economic D-Day And Much Ado About NothingS2
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