“Your story doesn’t add up: you say that Iran’s military power has been ‘dismantled,’ 100 percent of military factories ‘destroyed,’ and the nuclear program ‘buried,’” wrote Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on the social network X.
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“Yet there arose a need for the ‘largest financial invasion in history’ and the mobilization of ‘all United States institutions and powers’! Is this a victory or an admission of America’s defeat?” asked the Iranian representative.
Earlier, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated in a Financial Times article that Washington is launching the “largest financial attack against the opponent.”
S. Bessent posted on the social network X that these measures were taken after the United States “dismantled Iran’s military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried the nuclear program.”
On Monday, he is expected to explain the new U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned other countries not to join the U.S. economic campaign. Tehran’s representative Esmaeil Baqaei stated that participation in this process “will certainly have its consequences.”
The United States and Israel started the war in the Middle East on February 28 by launching a massive wave of strikes against Iran, which provoked Iran’s retaliatory actions across the region.
The April 8 ceasefire ended nearly 40 days of intense bombing, but soon disagreements over the Strait of Hormuz became the main hotspot of the conflict.
Iran has controlled this important energy transit artery since the beginning of the war. The opening of the strait, crucial for global oil and gas supply, became a U.S. priority, but Tehran says the waterway will remain closed until Washington lifts the maritime blockade of Iranian ports, removes oil sanctions, and unfreezes Iranian assets abroad.
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Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Washington will increase economic pressure on Iran on an unprecedented scale.
Washington urged other governments, including Beijing, to join efforts to further isolate Iran’s economy.
In an article published Monday in the Iranian newspaper Ettela’at, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that relations with China “have gained deeper, more structural, and comprehensive dimensions.”
Iran has faced U.S. and international sanctions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
D. Trump repeatedly applied a “maximum pressure” economic sanctions policy on Iran. He returned to this method in January 2025 when he resumed the U.S. presidency after a similar campaign in his first term.
Iran has repeatedly rejected the sanctions policy as unsuccessful, claiming that economic pressure and threats will not force it to change its course.
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