‘D-DAY’:
The US would not have threatened to launch ‘the largest financial invasion in history’ if Iran’s military and nuclear power had been destroyed, Tehran said
Iran yesterday dismissed Washington’s declaration of a massive economic pressure campaign, saying it disproved US claims to have dismantled Tehran’s military and nuclear capabilities. “Your narrative doesn’t add up: you say that Iran’s military power has been ‘dismantled,’ 100% of its military factories ‘destroyed’ and its nuclear program ‘buried,’” Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said in a post on X. Yet, “there is a need for ‘the largest financial invasion in history’ and the mobilization of ‘all institutions and powers’ of the United States! Is this a victory or an admission of America’s defeat?” he added.
People walk past shops and browse for goods at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran yesterday.
Earlier, US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent wrote in the Financial Times that Washington was launching the “single greatest financial offensive marshalled against an adversary”— calling it an “economic D-Day.”Bessent posted on X that the measure came after the US “dismantled Iran’s military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear program.”
