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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The biggest concern isn't whether Iran will eventually concede, but what Washington is risking to force that concession. The U.S. is once again weaponizing the dollar while Treasury markets are already under pressure and foreign central banks are increasingly turning toward gold. That is the paradox. Even if economic warfare forces Tehran to give Washington something in the short term, the long-term cost could be a financial system that gives America's rivals even more reason to build alternatives to it. A tactical win in Iran could become a strategic loss for U.S. financial power. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The biggest concern isn't whether Iran will eventually concede, but what Washington is risking to force that concession. The U.S. is once again weaponizing the dollar while Treasury markets are already under pressure and foreign central banks are increasingly turning toward gold. That is the paradox. Even if economic warfare forces Tehran to give Washington something in the short term, the long-term cost could be a financial system that gives America's rivals even more reason to build alternatives to it. A tactical win in Iran could become a strategic loss for U.S. financial power. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

47,895 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington may call it economic pressure. Tehran may call it war. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says Iran could respond to a U.S. economic campaign the same way it would respond to a military attack, particularly if countries help enforce it. The logic is pretty straightforward: if allowing your airbases to be used against Iran makes you a target, why should allowing your banks and financial system to be used against Iran be any different? Johnson's answer is that it shouldn't. And that puts the UAE in an uncomfortable position. But Gulf states have already realised Washington is not the security guarantee it once appeared to be and are quietly repairing relations with Tehran. The fact that the UAE has avoided another round of strikes is hardly irrelevant. Then there is the bigger problem with the sanctions strategy. China is refusing to play along. Pakistan is hardly going to abandon Iranian energy to keep Washington happy. Iranian oil is increasingly being settled in yuan, outside the U.S. financial system. The irony is becoming difficult to miss. The harder Washington squeezes Iran, the more Tehran's biggest partners have an incentive to build ways around Washington. 10 years ago, Russia and China helped enforce the sanctions regime. Today, they are helping Iran survive it. Meanwhile the rial has collapsed, Iran is restricting shipping through the Strait, and Tehran has reportedly been discussed for a regional defence pact involving Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Washington is promising the most devastating sanctions yet. Johnson's response? "I'll hold my breath." SonofNewAmericanRevolution

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington may call it economic pressure. Tehran may call it war. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says Iran could respond to a U.S. economic campaign the same way it would respond to a military attack, particularly if countries help enforce it. The logic is pretty straightforward: if allowing your airbases to be used against Iran makes you a target, why should allowing your banks and financial system to be used against Iran be any different? Johnson's answer is that it shouldn't. And that puts the UAE in an uncomfortable position. But Gulf states have already realised Washington is not the security guarantee it once appeared to be and are quietly repairing relations with Tehran. The fact that the UAE has avoided another round of strikes is hardly irrelevant. Then there is the bigger problem with the sanctions strategy. China is refusing to play along. Pakistan is hardly going to abandon Iranian energy to keep Washington happy. Iranian oil is increasingly being settled in yuan, outside the U.S. financial system. The irony is becoming difficult to miss. The harder Washington squeezes Iran, the more Tehran's biggest partners have an incentive to build ways around Washington. 10 years ago, Russia and China helped enforce the sanctions regime. Today, they are helping Iran survive it. Meanwhile the rial has collapsed, Iran is restricting shipping through the Strait, and Tehran has reportedly been discussed for a regional defence pact involving Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Washington is promising the most devastating sanctions yet. Johnson's response? "I'll hold my breath." SonofNewAmericanRevolution

Mario Nawfal

310,764 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sanctions won't fix the problem. Washington is prolonging the Iran crisis without solving the problem that actually matters: getting oil flowing normally again. Economic warfare may give Trump political cover, but it does little to restore energy flows, risks further damage to the dollar, and pushes Iran closer to China. The strange part is that Washington may be escalating precisely when the quickest way to stabilize the region is to stop adding pressure. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sanctions won't fix the problem. Washington is prolonging the Iran crisis without solving the problem that actually matters: getting oil flowing normally again. Economic warfare may give Trump political cover, but it does little to restore energy flows, risks further damage to the dollar, and pushes Iran closer to China. The strange part is that Washington may be escalating precisely when the quickest way to stabilize the region is to stop adding pressure. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

58,500 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump just declared economic war on anyone keeping Iran alive. There's just one HUGE problem: China. Trump's “Economic D-Day” is an attempt to financially isolate Iran on a scale Washington says has never been attempted before. And Treasury Sec. Bessent made the objective brutally clear: They want to collapse the Iranian regime. That means targeting not just Iran, but the countries, banks and businesses that continue trading with it. Which brings Washington directly into collision with Beijing. China buys the overwhelming majority of Iran's shipped oil. So if Trump genuinely intends to economically strangle Tehran, eventually he has to answer the question everyone is asking: What happens when China refuses to stop? He faces two choices: Don't enforce the sanctions aggressively against China, and Tehran retains the economic lifeline Washington is trying to sever. Enforce them, and what began as an economic war against Iran starts becoming an economic confrontation with the world's second-largest economy. And China isn't Iran. Beijing has economic weapons of its own: Rare earths, manufacturing, critical supply chains, and, crucially, an alternative financial architecture it's spent years developing precisely because it never wanted Washington to possess a permanent veto over Chinese commerce. That's the part of this story that could become far more consequential than whatever happens in Hormuz. America's greatest economic weapon isn't an aircraft carrier, it's the dollar. Access to the dollar system gives Washington an extraordinary ability to punish governments, banks and companies almost anywhere on Earth. But that power only remains overwhelming for as long as the rest of the world has no viable alternative. Every time Washington weaponises it, it creates another incentive to build one. And Trump is now threatening to demonstrate that vulnerability on an enormous scale. China doesn't need to overthrow the dollar tomorrow; it just needs enough infrastructure to continue trading when Washington says: Stop, or else. And once that infrastructure exists, other countries gain access to the same insurance policy. Trump's war on Iran exposed the limits of American military power. His economic war may be about to expose the limits of America's financial power too. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump just declared economic war on anyone keeping Iran alive. There's just one HUGE problem: China. Trump's “Economic D-Day” is an attempt to financially isolate Iran on a scale Washington says has never been attempted before. And Treasury Sec. Bessent made the objective brutally clear: They want to collapse the Iranian regime. That means targeting not just Iran, but the countries, banks and businesses that continue trading with it. Which brings Washington directly into collision with Beijing. China buys the overwhelming majority of Iran's shipped oil. So if Trump genuinely intends to economically strangle Tehran, eventually he has to answer the question everyone is asking: What happens when China refuses to stop? He faces two choices: Don't enforce the sanctions aggressively against China, and Tehran retains the economic lifeline Washington is trying to sever. Enforce them, and what began as an economic war against Iran starts becoming an economic confrontation with the world's second-largest economy. And China isn't Iran. Beijing has economic weapons of its own: Rare earths, manufacturing, critical supply chains, and, crucially, an alternative financial architecture it's spent years developing precisely because it never wanted Washington to possess a permanent veto over Chinese commerce. That's the part of this story that could become far more consequential than whatever happens in Hormuz. America's greatest economic weapon isn't an aircraft carrier, it's the dollar. Access to the dollar system gives Washington an extraordinary ability to punish governments, banks and companies almost anywhere on Earth. But that power only remains overwhelming for as long as the rest of the world has no viable alternative. Every time Washington weaponises it, it creates another incentive to build one. And Trump is now threatening to demonstrate that vulnerability on an enormous scale. China doesn't need to overthrow the dollar tomorrow; it just needs enough infrastructure to continue trading when Washington says: Stop, or else. And once that infrastructure exists, other countries gain access to the same insurance policy. Trump's war on Iran exposed the limits of American military power. His economic war may be about to expose the limits of America's financial power too. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

536,670 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Larry Johnson: America’s economic war on Iran may be backfiring Washington’s strategy is supposed to squeeze Iran until Tehran has fewer options. Larry Johnson thinks it may be producing the opposite. His argument is that sanctions, blockades and control over the dollar system work only as long as other countries have nowhere else to go. But pressure creates an incentive to build the exit. Johnson compares what America is doing today to Britain’s economic pressure in the early 19th century: London tried to control who could trade with whom, only to encourage countries to develop alternatives. “You think you’ve created a choke point that nobody else can get around, but it turns out it’s just a toll booth, and people can find another way to go around that toll booth.” He points to Russia, China and Iran increasingly settling trade outside the dollar and the broader expansion of BRICS as evidence that this process is already underway. “Once you start disengaging yourself from the U.S. dollar market and infrastructure and architecture, all of a sudden the influence the United States thought it has has diminished.” And Washington has a much more immediate problem. Johnson argues that keeping the Persian Gulf blockade in place is restricting oil used for diesel production, pushing up costs for farmers, truckers and consumers just weeks before the midterms. That leaves Trump with an increasingly awkward equation: The longer the economic pressure continues, the more expensive it becomes at home. And the harder America squeezes the international financial system, the more incentive everyone else has to build one without it. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Larry Johnson: America’s economic war on Iran may be backfiring Washington’s strategy is supposed to squeeze Iran until Tehran has fewer options. Larry Johnson thinks it may be producing the opposite. His argument is that sanctions, blockades and control over the dollar system work only as long as other countries have nowhere else to go. But pressure creates an incentive to build the exit. Johnson compares what America is doing today to Britain’s economic pressure in the early 19th century: London tried to control who could trade with whom, only to encourage countries to develop alternatives. “You think you’ve created a choke point that nobody else can get around, but it turns out it’s just a toll booth, and people can find another way to go around that toll booth.” He points to Russia, China and Iran increasingly settling trade outside the dollar and the broader expansion of BRICS as evidence that this process is already underway. “Once you start disengaging yourself from the U.S. dollar market and infrastructure and architecture, all of a sudden the influence the United States thought it has has diminished.” And Washington has a much more immediate problem. Johnson argues that keeping the Persian Gulf blockade in place is restricting oil used for diesel production, pushing up costs for farmers, truckers and consumers just weeks before the midterms. That leaves Trump with an increasingly awkward equation: The longer the economic pressure continues, the more expensive it becomes at home. And the harder America squeezes the international financial system, the more incentive everyone else has to build one without it. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

Mario Nawfal

229,707 views • 21 days ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran thinks time is running out and so does America. Tehran is still publicly asking Washington for a deal. Former U.S. diplomat and JCPOA negotiator Alan Eyre thinks that’s genuine. Tehran wants sanctions lifted, frozen assets released and a return to something resembling the Islamabad MoU. Trump thinks he can extract more. That creates a dangerous race. Eyre argues Iran knows its economic leverage is strongest before the midterms, which gives Tehran an incentive to intensify pressure now. But America has its own clock. Even with tankers moving through Hormuz under U.S. protection, Eyre says the system cannot simply continue indefinitely. Shipping remains expensive, millions of barrels per day are still missing, and U.S. naval readiness makes permanent escort operations unrealistic. “It’s not sustainable.” That is the part that matters. Washington’s strategy assumes Iran eventually cracks under economic pressure. Iran’s strategy assumes the economic and military cost of containing it eventually becomes intolerable for Washington. Neither side needs to defeat the other outright. They just need the other side’s clock to expire first. Brandon Weichert Alan Eyre

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran thinks time is running out and so does America. Tehran is still publicly asking Washington for a deal. Former U.S. diplomat and JCPOA negotiator Alan Eyre thinks that’s genuine. Tehran wants sanctions lifted, frozen assets released and a return to something resembling the Islamabad MoU. Trump thinks he can extract more. That creates a dangerous race. Eyre argues Iran knows its economic leverage is strongest before the midterms, which gives Tehran an incentive to intensify pressure now. But America has its own clock. Even with tankers moving through Hormuz under U.S. protection, Eyre says the system cannot simply continue indefinitely. Shipping remains expensive, millions of barrels per day are still missing, and U.S. naval readiness makes permanent escort operations unrealistic. “It’s not sustainable.” That is the part that matters. Washington’s strategy assumes Iran eventually cracks under economic pressure. Iran’s strategy assumes the economic and military cost of containing it eventually becomes intolerable for Washington. Neither side needs to defeat the other outright. They just need the other side’s clock to expire first. Brandon Weichert Alan Eyre

Mario Nawfal

225,668 views • 7 days ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Economic "D-Day" could backfire on Washington The Iran sanctions campaign faces a basic problem: China can circumvent it, but forcing Beijing to fully comply would mean inflicting enormous damage on the U.S. economy too. Sanctions take months to implement, enforce and evade. Washington is therefore left with an ugly choice: accept that China will work around the restrictions, or escalate against Beijing and risk turning an Iran policy into a much larger economic crisis. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Economic "D-Day" could backfire on Washington The Iran sanctions campaign faces a basic problem: China can circumvent it, but forcing Beijing to fully comply would mean inflicting enormous damage on the U.S. economy too. Sanctions take months to implement, enforce and evade. Washington is therefore left with an ugly choice: accept that China will work around the restrictions, or escalate against Beijing and risk turning an Iran policy into a much larger economic crisis. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

61,308 views • 1 month ago

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's latest attack struck U.S military facilities in Kuwait and the UAE, but the timing may be more important than the attack itself. The previous U.S-Iran exchange had effectively stopped. Washington decided not to retaliate against Iran's last barrage and reports suggest Trump’s team is actively trying to avoid another major escalation before the midterms. Iran attacked again anyway. And to understand why, look at what Washington is doing behind the scenes. The U.S is intensifying its economic campaign against Tehran, reportedly instructing embassies around the world to pressure governments to cut Iranian trade, with countries, companies and individuals potentially threatened with sanctions or a loss of access to the dollar system. Meanwhile, the UAE has become an important partner in Washington's attempt to keep oil moving through Hormuz and tighten the economic screws on Iran. Then Iran hits U.S-linked military infrastructure in the UAE and Kuwait. That makes these strikes look less like retaliation for something America already did and more like a warning about what comes next: If Washington turns the Gulf into the infrastructure for an economic war against Iran, Tehran may turn that same infrastructure into the battlefield. And that creates a serious problem for Trump's apparent pivot from military war to economic war. Sanctions were supposed to provide a way of squeezing Iran without another major exchange of missiles. Iran may be signalling that it doesn't intend to let America separate the two. Brandon Weichert

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's latest attack struck U.S military facilities in Kuwait and the UAE, but the timing may be more important than the attack itself. The previous U.S-Iran exchange had effectively stopped. Washington decided not to retaliate against Iran's last barrage and reports suggest Trump’s team is actively trying to avoid another major escalation before the midterms. Iran attacked again anyway. And to understand why, look at what Washington is doing behind the scenes. The U.S is intensifying its economic campaign against Tehran, reportedly instructing embassies around the world to pressure governments to cut Iranian trade, with countries, companies and individuals potentially threatened with sanctions or a loss of access to the dollar system. Meanwhile, the UAE has become an important partner in Washington's attempt to keep oil moving through Hormuz and tighten the economic screws on Iran. Then Iran hits U.S-linked military infrastructure in the UAE and Kuwait. That makes these strikes look less like retaliation for something America already did and more like a warning about what comes next: If Washington turns the Gulf into the infrastructure for an economic war against Iran, Tehran may turn that same infrastructure into the battlefield. And that creates a serious problem for Trump's apparent pivot from military war to economic war. Sanctions were supposed to provide a way of squeezing Iran without another major exchange of missiles. Iran may be signalling that it doesn't intend to let America separate the two. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

340,144 views • 1 month ago

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Washington has blindly stumbled into a devastating proxy trap in Iran, and Beijing is reaping all the rewards. Every single weapon system the U.S. expends in the Middle East is one less deterrent available to stop a Chinese move on Taiwan. Brandon Weichert argued that Trump's recent concessions to China reveal how completely overextended the U.S. is, warning that America will feel extreme economic consequences for the forseeable future. Brandon Weichert

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Washington has blindly stumbled into a devastating proxy trap in Iran, and Beijing is reaping all the rewards. Every single weapon system the U.S. expends in the Middle East is one less deterrent available to stop a Chinese move on Taiwan. Brandon Weichert argued that Trump's recent concessions to China reveal how completely overextended the U.S. is, warning that America will feel extreme economic consequences for the forseeable future. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

100,196 views • 4 months ago

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 "THE U.S. ALSO WANTS TO ELIMINATE THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA, CHINA, AND IRAN IN VENEZUELA" Former CIA Intel Analyst Larry Johnson says it’s not just about oil deals or Maduro cutting a bargain with Washington. He argues the bigger U.S. goal is to push Russia, China, and Iran out of Venezuela’s orbit, and to stop Caracas from drifting into BRICS and away from a U.S.-dollar-led system. In his view, if Venezuela moves into a different economic lane, the U.S. loses one of its main power tools: sanctions and financial pressure. "The U.S. also wants to eliminate the presence, the influence of Russia, China, and Iran. They have had good relations, cordial relations with Maduro. Maduro has been making sounds of wanting to join BRICS, and I think the U.S. definitely wants to curtail that. Because that’ll just be another important country in this hemisphere that is moving away from the U.S. dollar-controlled economy into something that the U.S. can no longer use economic sanctions and coercion to try to enforce certain behaviors on countries." Larry Johnson

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 "THE U.S. ALSO WANTS TO ELIMINATE THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIA, CHINA, AND IRAN IN VENEZUELA" Former CIA Intel Analyst Larry Johnson says it’s not just about oil deals or Maduro cutting a bargain with Washington. He argues the bigger U.S. goal is to push Russia, China, and Iran out of Venezuela’s orbit, and to stop Caracas from drifting into BRICS and away from a U.S.-dollar-led system. In his view, if Venezuela moves into a different economic lane, the U.S. loses one of its main power tools: sanctions and financial pressure. "The U.S. also wants to eliminate the presence, the influence of Russia, China, and Iran. They have had good relations, cordial relations with Maduro. Maduro has been making sounds of wanting to join BRICS, and I think the U.S. definitely wants to curtail that. Because that’ll just be another important country in this hemisphere that is moving away from the U.S. dollar-controlled economy into something that the U.S. can no longer use economic sanctions and coercion to try to enforce certain behaviors on countries." Larry Johnson

Mario Nawfal

32,982 views • 9 months ago

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 BIG | President Donald Trump says the United States is currently "low-keying it" with Iran, signaling that Washington is holding back from another major military escalation while allowing economic pressure on Tehran to build. According to Axios, Trump said the U.S. is maintaining only limited negotiations with Iran while closely watching the country's deteriorating economic situation. "We're only semi-negotiating with them. We're just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact that they have no money," Trump said. The president argued that Iran is in "very bad shape" economically and is even struggling to pay its military personnel, while the U.S. naval blockade continues to intensify financial pressure on Tehran. Trump suggested that Washington is prepared to wait rather than immediately return to large-scale military operations, calculating that mounting economic pressure could eventually force Iran toward a more favorable agreement. "It will work out. It always works out. It's like a chess game," Trump said of the confrontation with Tehran. The remarks indicate that, for now, Washington appears willing to let economic pressure do much of the work while keeping military escalation available as leverage if diplomacy fails. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 BIG | President Donald Trump says the United States is currently "low-keying it" with Iran, signaling that Washington is holding back from another major military escalation while allowing economic pressure on Tehran to build. According to Axios, Trump said the U.S. is maintaining only limited negotiations with Iran while closely watching the country's deteriorating economic situation. "We're only semi-negotiating with them. We're just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact that they have no money," Trump said. The president argued that Iran is in "very bad shape" economically and is even struggling to pay its military personnel, while the U.S. naval blockade continues to intensify financial pressure on Tehran. Trump suggested that Washington is prepared to wait rather than immediately return to large-scale military operations, calculating that mounting economic pressure could eventually force Iran toward a more favorable agreement. "It will work out. It always works out. It's like a chess game," Trump said of the confrontation with Tehran. The remarks indicate that, for now, Washington appears willing to let economic pressure do much of the work while keeping military escalation available as leverage if diplomacy fails. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

Visioner

51,951 views • 1 month ago

🇮🇷 The Iranian rial is approaching 2 million to the dollar, and the financial system holding this war together is cracking in ways that have nothing to do with Iran. Economist Philip Pilkington joins me to break down what is actually happening beneath the headlines: Primary sanctions on Iran are already maxed out, having been at effective maximum pressure since 2012, which is why the real question is secondary sanctions and whether Trump will actually impose them on China. If he does, China will not comply, because folding on Iran would destroy their entire credibility as an alternative to the American-led order. And the economic blowback on the U.S. would be SEVERE: rare earths cut off, the AI bubble popped, treasury markets further destabilized... The rial at 2 million to the dollar is a SYMPTOM. The 'disease' is a global financial system under simultaneous pressure from war, sanctions, currency crises, and a U.S. bond market nobody fully controls anymore. Pleasure as always, Philip Pilkington

🇮🇷 The Iranian rial is approaching 2 million to the dollar, and the financial system holding this war together is cracking in ways that have nothing to do with Iran. Economist Philip Pilkington joins me to break down what is actually happening beneath the headlines: Primary sanctions on Iran are already maxed out, having been at effective maximum pressure since 2012, which is why the real question is secondary sanctions and whether Trump will actually impose them on China. If he does, China will not comply, because folding on Iran would destroy their entire credibility as an alternative to the American-led order. And the economic blowback on the U.S. would be SEVERE: rare earths cut off, the AI bubble popped, treasury markets further destabilized... The rial at 2 million to the dollar is a SYMPTOM. The 'disease' is a global financial system under simultaneous pressure from war, sanctions, currency crises, and a U.S. bond market nobody fully controls anymore. Pleasure as always, Philip Pilkington

Mario Nawfal

331,183 views • 1 month ago

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent making it very clear: Washington is willing to use the full force of its financial system to choke Iran economically. That may look like strength, but it also confirms what much of the world already suspects, that access to the dollar system is conditional and can be weaponised at will. Every time the US turns sanctions into a blunt instrument, it reinforces the case for countries to reduce their exposure to American financial dominance. You don’t have to admire BRICS to understand the dynamic. When the world’s reserve currency is used as leverage, other nations start building alternatives. Not out of ideology,out of self-preservation. Economic coercion doesn’t just pressure adversaries. It signals to neutral states that their sovereignty could be one policy shift away from being constrained. That accelerates diversification, parallel payment systems, and long-term de-dollarisation efforts. Washington may believe it’s tightening control. In reality, it may be steadily teaching the world how to operate without it. Power used recklessly has a cost. And over time, the cost compounds......

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent making it very clear: Washington is willing to use the full force of its financial system to choke Iran economically. That may look like strength, but it also confirms what much of the world already suspects, that access to the dollar system is conditional and can be weaponised at will. Every time the US turns sanctions into a blunt instrument, it reinforces the case for countries to reduce their exposure to American financial dominance. You don’t have to admire BRICS to understand the dynamic. When the world’s reserve currency is used as leverage, other nations start building alternatives. Not out of ideology,out of self-preservation. Economic coercion doesn’t just pressure adversaries. It signals to neutral states that their sovereignty could be one policy shift away from being constrained. That accelerates diversification, parallel payment systems, and long-term de-dollarisation efforts. Washington may believe it’s tightening control. In reality, it may be steadily teaching the world how to operate without it. Power used recklessly has a cost. And over time, the cost compounds......

Richard

43,036 views • 7 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's pressure strategy against Iran may be reaching its breaking point, because Tehran's answer to more pressure is more war Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says Washington is preparing to move from “Epic Fury” to “Economic Fury,” with unprecedented measures designed to isolate Iran and squeeze its economy even harder. There's just one problem. Tehran is signalling that the more Washington turns up the financial pressure, the more Iran is prepared to turn up the military pressure. An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader has now warned that if Iran's demands aren't met, Tehran could shift from a defensive posture to an offensive one. Meanwhile, CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper is reportedly becoming increasingly pessimistic that renewed fighting can be avoided. So while Washington publicly talks about pressure creating the conditions for diplomacy, the military appears to be preparing for the possibility that it produces exactly the opposite. And events on the ground are already moving in that direction. Two UAE-owned tankers were attacked by drones while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with the UAE blaming Iran. The Houthis are escalating around Yemen and Saudi Arabia. And during our discussion, reports emerged of another attack targeting Saudi Aramco infrastructure. But America may be preparing for another round of fighting without having solved one of the biggest problems exposed by the last one: Weapons production. The U.S is finally fielding its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile, but the production rate is roughly one missile per month, with ambitions to increase that to two. And increasingly, America's adversaries appear to understand that the economics of warfare matter just as much as the weapons themselves. Fire cheaper weapons, force your enemy to burn expensive interceptors, drain their magazines, then use the weapons you've been saving. Trump's strategy rests on the assumption that enough pain eventually forces Tehran back to the negotiating table. Iran is betting on something very different: That enough pain forces America to decide this war simply isn't worth the price. And if neither side backs down, “Economic Fury” may not be the alternative to another war; it may be the trigger for it. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's pressure strategy against Iran may be reaching its breaking point, because Tehran's answer to more pressure is more war Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says Washington is preparing to move from “Epic Fury” to “Economic Fury,” with unprecedented measures designed to isolate Iran and squeeze its economy even harder. There's just one problem. Tehran is signalling that the more Washington turns up the financial pressure, the more Iran is prepared to turn up the military pressure. An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader has now warned that if Iran's demands aren't met, Tehran could shift from a defensive posture to an offensive one. Meanwhile, CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper is reportedly becoming increasingly pessimistic that renewed fighting can be avoided. So while Washington publicly talks about pressure creating the conditions for diplomacy, the military appears to be preparing for the possibility that it produces exactly the opposite. And events on the ground are already moving in that direction. Two UAE-owned tankers were attacked by drones while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with the UAE blaming Iran. The Houthis are escalating around Yemen and Saudi Arabia. And during our discussion, reports emerged of another attack targeting Saudi Aramco infrastructure. But America may be preparing for another round of fighting without having solved one of the biggest problems exposed by the last one: Weapons production. The U.S is finally fielding its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile, but the production rate is roughly one missile per month, with ambitions to increase that to two. And increasingly, America's adversaries appear to understand that the economics of warfare matter just as much as the weapons themselves. Fire cheaper weapons, force your enemy to burn expensive interceptors, drain their magazines, then use the weapons you've been saving. Trump's strategy rests on the assumption that enough pain eventually forces Tehran back to the negotiating table. Iran is betting on something very different: That enough pain forces America to decide this war simply isn't worth the price. And if neither side backs down, “Economic Fury” may not be the alternative to another war; it may be the trigger for it. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

293,730 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 Trump is preparing to tighten the economic noose around an already battered Iran, betting that unprecedented financial pressure can force Tehran into a deal without immediately returning to large-scale military strikes. According to Bloomberg, the Trump administration is preparing “unprecedented economic measures” against Iran, with the goal of forcing Tehran toward an agreement before the November midterm elections. The move suggests that, for now, Trump prefers economic pressure and diplomacy over renewed strikes, despite calls from parts of the U.S. military leadership for a tougher military approach. Washington’s strategy now appears to be straightforward: use Iran’s weakened post-war economy as the battlefield and sanctions as the weapon. Tehran may have survived the military campaign, but if the U.S. can further restrict its oil revenues, financial access and ability to rebuild, Trump could try to achieve through economic strangulation what another costly round of warfare might not guarantee. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 Trump is preparing to tighten the economic noose around an already battered Iran, betting that unprecedented financial pressure can force Tehran into a deal without immediately returning to large-scale military strikes. According to Bloomberg, the Trump administration is preparing “unprecedented economic measures” against Iran, with the goal of forcing Tehran toward an agreement before the November midterm elections. The move suggests that, for now, Trump prefers economic pressure and diplomacy over renewed strikes, despite calls from parts of the U.S. military leadership for a tougher military approach. Washington’s strategy now appears to be straightforward: use Iran’s weakened post-war economy as the battlefield and sanctions as the weapon. Tehran may have survived the military campaign, but if the U.S. can further restrict its oil revenues, financial access and ability to rebuild, Trump could try to achieve through economic strangulation what another costly round of warfare might not guarantee. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

Visioner

18,048 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's immediate objective is simple: get the U.S. out of the Strait of Hormuz without allowing Iran to dictate who passes through it. The problem is that Tehran now sees Hormuz as its leverage. That may be the central problem with Washington's strategy. Economic warfare can avoid a ground invasion and nuclear escalation. But if Iran believes control of Hormuz is essential to its survival, sanctions may only convince Tehran to hold the strait tighter. The war may have moved from missiles to economics. The underlying confrontation hasn't moved an inch. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's immediate objective is simple: get the U.S. out of the Strait of Hormuz without allowing Iran to dictate who passes through it. The problem is that Tehran now sees Hormuz as its leverage. That may be the central problem with Washington's strategy. Economic warfare can avoid a ground invasion and nuclear escalation. But if Iran believes control of Hormuz is essential to its survival, sanctions may only convince Tehran to hold the strait tighter. The war may have moved from missiles to economics. The underlying confrontation hasn't moved an inch. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

70,863 views • 1 month ago

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 China is officially weaponizing its legal system against Washington. For the first time, Beijing has activated "blocking rules" to nullify U.S. sanctions, leaving global banks trapped between two contradictory legal worlds. Jeffrey Currie argues that while financial traders are ignoring the risk, commodity experts see this as the moment China goes on the offensive to protect its "colonies" in Iran and Russia. "This is part of a bigger dedollarization story that hasn't ran its course."

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 China is officially weaponizing its legal system against Washington. For the first time, Beijing has activated "blocking rules" to nullify U.S. sanctions, leaving global banks trapped between two contradictory legal worlds. Jeffrey Currie argues that while financial traders are ignoring the risk, commodity experts see this as the moment China goes on the offensive to protect its "colonies" in Iran and Russia. "This is part of a bigger dedollarization story that hasn't ran its course."

Mario Nawfal

53,718 views • 5 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sec. Bessent on Iran: "We have created new authorities for Treasury to sanction under aviation, maritime, and digital assets." Washington is widening its sanctions net, targeting the networks that keep Iran connected to global trade and finance. More pressure on Tehran, and on the companies doing business with it... but will that make the difference? Writer: Samuel

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sec. Bessent on Iran: "We have created new authorities for Treasury to sanction under aviation, maritime, and digital assets." Washington is widening its sanctions net, targeting the networks that keep Iran connected to global trade and finance. More pressure on Tehran, and on the companies doing business with it... but will that make the difference? Writer: Samuel

Mario Nawfal

35,417 views • 1 month ago

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran is signaling that any U.S. economic blockade would trigger a military response rather than force Tehran to back down. Middle East analyst Joshua Landis says recent Iranian strikes were designed to warn Washington that pressure on the Strait of Hormuz would not remain an economic contest. Instead, he argues, Tehran would expand the battlefield by targeting U.S. assets and regional infrastructure, turning sanctions into a wider kinetic conflict. His assessment is that Tehran is trying to convince Washington that economic warfare cannot remain separate from military escalation. Joshua Landis

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran is signaling that any U.S. economic blockade would trigger a military response rather than force Tehran to back down. Middle East analyst Joshua Landis says recent Iranian strikes were designed to warn Washington that pressure on the Strait of Hormuz would not remain an economic contest. Instead, he argues, Tehran would expand the battlefield by targeting U.S. assets and regional infrastructure, turning sanctions into a wider kinetic conflict. His assessment is that Tehran is trying to convince Washington that economic warfare cannot remain separate from military escalation. Joshua Landis

Mario Nawfal

86,521 views • 2 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 Washington's pressure campaign is moving toward Iran's trade corridors with China and Pakistan. Ports. Railways. Energy routes. The infrastructure tying Iran into the wider Eurasian economy. “The Americans will try to interfere with all that. There’s no question.” If those links become targets, this stops being just a war over Iran. It becomes a fight over whether Washington can sever Iran from the China-led economic system. Pepe Escobar

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 Washington's pressure campaign is moving toward Iran's trade corridors with China and Pakistan. Ports. Railways. Energy routes. The infrastructure tying Iran into the wider Eurasian economy. “The Americans will try to interfere with all that. There’s no question.” If those links become targets, this stops being just a war over Iran. It becomes a fight over whether Washington can sever Iran from the China-led economic system. Pepe Escobar

Mario Nawfal

50,527 views • 1 month ago