US Treasury Secretary says Iran is running out of economic lifelines

Single source · 2026-10-30 00:00 UTC

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says in a post on X that Iran is running out of economic lifelines under Operation Economic Outcast and that the US is cutting Tehran's ability to fund the Houthis, Hamas and Hizballah. A later Middle East Eye live-blog update attributes to Bessent the same claim about economic lifelines under US sanctions, and adds that the IRGC is reportedly failing to pay its own troops.

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• Middle East Eye, 2026-10-30 03:56 UTC
• Middle East Eye, 2026-10-30 07:49 UTC

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• 2026-10-30 03:58 UTC: Unverified
• 2026-10-30 04:02 UTC: Unverified to Single source

First reported 2026-10-30 03:56 UTC; last updated 2026-10-30 07:56 UTC.

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