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The US Treasury Department is likely to unveil weekly new secondary sanctions<\/a> aimed at increasing economic pressure<\/a> on Iran, with an initial focus on banks, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After imposing penalties on the United Arab Emirates branches of Egypt’s Banque Misr on Friday over alleged financial links to Iran<\/a>, Bessent said in an interview that the next step may be cutting off an institution entirely from the dollar-based financial system.<\/p>\n

“You’re going to see a lot more of these every week,” Bessent said ahead of a Group of 20 finance leaders meeting. “We’re starting with the banks, and we’re telling the banks it’s not okay to have Iranian money and to aid the regime.”<\/p>\n

Bessent said he intends to drive the message home to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors to cut economic ties<\/a> to Iran, or face secondary sanctions.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Treasury Department is likely to unveil weekly new secondary sanctions aimed at increasing economic pressure on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[73304,34,6475,1109,19501,509,7998,2288,225,256],"class_list":["post-270706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-g20","tag-iran","tag-iran-sanctions","tag-iran-us-conflict","tag-iranian-economy","tag-sanctions","tag-sanctions-against-iran","tag-scott-bessent","tag-us-iran","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117187537952015276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270706","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=270706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}