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Bessent wonders how Iran's delegation will return home, as US tightens sanctions targeting Tehran's airlines

Mera Aladam9/24/2026
Bessent wonders how Iran's delegation will return home, as US tightens sanctions targeting Tehran's airlines

"In terms of Operation Economic Outcast, we are squeezing the Iranians like they've never seen today," he said, adding that the campaign was affecting Iran's international air links. Bessent claimed that over 80 to 90 percent of external flights from Iran had been shut down. "We have made it very clear around the world, whether it's the financiers, the people who are doing business, the people who are supplying the Iranians, we know who you are, you know who you are," he further warned.

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