Treasury secretary says US will ramp up economic pain on Iran

[nitpicked]

https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-war-lebanon-israel-talks-hormuz-15-april-2026-f1b02d16f81d6fdcf68c0ed16d7a719d

CAIRO (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Wednesday that the U.S. will ramp up its infliction of economic pain on Iran.

Bessent said the effort would be the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.

((Appended atop earlier AP story about Pakistani arrival in Tehran.))

[walkingman]

1. Oh that's divine - cause as much suffering as you can to the people you claim to help.

And BTW - I do not appreciate you spending my hard-earned tax money on this dumb war. Assholes.

[Blues Heron]

2. Scott is a murderer too, like his boss, the orange anus.

[SergeStorms]

3. Why not ease up.....

on the economic pain in the U.S. instead?

Just a thought.

[BamaRefugee]

4. He forgot to mention that they'll be ramping up economic pain on us as well

If you're over 50, they want you dead.
It's even in that project 2025 I read it way back but I haven't found it since I'm just in the 600 numbered pages.

Once they take away our social security if we're the right age, will no longer be able to pay rent, so we'll be living on the sidewalk, and have no way to cook food or anything so we'll start starving and just one day we just won't wake up.
I'm sure they'll have lots of volunteer patrols to lotus into wheelbarrows and just like the good old days they'll be calling loudly BRING OUT YOUR DEAD.

Planned Extinction.

[magicarpet]

5. Funny we did not take an identical approach with Russia/Putie to dissuade,..

... and curtail his war of aggression against the sovereignty of Ukraine.

Why oh why might that be ? Now Putin is making $ billions upon $ billions off the oil shortage caused by the Netanyahu/trDUMP vanity and ego war of aggression against Iran.

How does that make any sense ?

[RockRaven]

6. From what baseline? The Dotard removed sanctions and created a tollbooth situation for them.

Are you measuring from the present, or the pre-Dotard Disaster levels? Because you can "ramp up the pain" and they will still come out ahead overall if you measure from the present because of how traitorous and incompetent The Dotard has been.

[Coolgoober]

7. It Will Be Nothing

Compared to the economic pain Iran is inflicting on the world