{"id":270647,"date":"2026-08-31T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/270647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:22:09","slug":"bessent-expects-new-us-secondary-sanctions-weekly-aiming-to-increase-pressure-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/270647\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent Expects New US Secondary Sanctions Weekly, Aiming to Increase Pressure on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, North \u2060Carolina, \u2060Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The \u2060U.S. Treasury Department is likely \u200bto unveil weekly new secondary sanctions \u200caimed at increasing economic \u200cpressure on Iran, with an \u2060initial \u2060focus on banks, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u200btold Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After imposing penalties on the United Arab Emirates branches \u200bof Egypt&#8217;s Banque Misr on Friday over \u2060alleged financial \u2060links to Iran, \u2060Bessent \u200bsaid in an interview that the next \u200bstep may \u2060be cutting off an institution entirely from the dollar-based financial system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see a lot more \u2060of these every week,&#8221; Bessent said ahead of a \u2060Group of 20 finance leaders meeting. &#8220;We&#8217;re starting with the banks, and we&#8217;re telling the banks it&#8217;s not okay to have Iranian money and to aid the regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bessent said he intends to drive the message \u2060home to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors to cut economic ties to Iran, or face \u200bsecondary sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing \u200bby Edmund Klamann)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, North \u2060Carolina, \u2060Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The \u2060U.S. Treasury Department is likely \u200bto unveil weekly new secondary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1393,655,73304,1304,34,49,351,272,51,82],"class_list":["post-270647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-collections-world","tag-egypt","tag-g20","tag-international-trade","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-reuters","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117187270732651765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}