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Bessent Announces New Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Financial Networks

8/30/2026

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Bessent Targets Iran

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sanctions package targeting Iran’s financial and trade networks on August 28 2026.
The measures risk worsening fuel shortages and soaring inflation, leaving ordinary Iranians facing long gas-station lines in Tehran, Isfahan and Bandar Abbas.
Annual inflation in Iran reached 66 percent in July 2026, driving up living costs.
The Treasury aims to revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking, processed $1.8 billion for Iranian networks.

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Bessent Sanctions Iran

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sanctions package targeting Iran’s financial and trade networks on August 28, 2026.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian admitted the sanctions hurt the economy, vowed resistance and pledged to boost domestic production.
The proposal to raise gasoline prices, possibly doubling them, was made by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
U.S. Central Command escorted 1,500 vessels through Strait of Hormuz, moving 750 million barrels of oil.

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Bessent Sanctions Iran

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sanctions package targeting Iran’s financial and trade networks on August 28, 2026.
It expands sanctions to digital-asset, gold, technology, aviation and shipping entities, naming a Dubai Bank Melli manager and a Hong Kong firm as alleged fund-launderers.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei urged action on inflation, unemployment, price management and market challenges.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran’s trade fell 35 percent due to U.S. sanctions and the blockade.

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei wrote that Iran’s government must tackle inflation, unemployment, price management and the systemic market challenges.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Center-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Left- and Right-leaning coverage.

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Bessent Targets Iran

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sanctions package targeting Iran’s financial and trade networks on August 28 2026.
The measures risk worsening fuel shortages and soaring inflation, leaving ordinary Iranians facing long gas-station lines in Tehran, Isfahan and Bandar Abbas.
Annual inflation in Iran reached 66 percent in July 2026, driving up living costs.
The Treasury aims to revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking, processed $1.8 billion for Iranian networks.

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