- Sanctions squeeze hits revenues, inflation and trade
- Global markets adapt, blunting Tehran’s coercive power
- Officials hope economic pain sparks unrest in Iran
- Sceptics say Iran’s resilience could thwart U.S. strategy
ISTANBUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Six months after a conflict that rattled markets and pushed the Gulf to the brink of a wider war, the tide may be turning against Iran as Washington unleashes an unprecedented economic offensive to achieve what military force could not.
After years of surviving sanctions, Tehran is now confronting one of the harshest squeezes in the Islamic Republic’s history, according to Iranian insiders and regional sources. A U.S. naval blockade and tougher sanctions are curbing oil exports, restricting access to foreign currency and exposing growing strains in the economy.
The campaign has led U.S. and regional officials to wager that mounting economic pressure can force Tehran to allow free passage through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of global oil and LNG supplies.
Their bet rests on a simple calculation: Iran is suffering more economic damage than it is inflicting. Efforts to choke off oil exports have cut state revenues, while attempts to disrupt shipping through Hormuz have not triggered the global economic shock Tehran hoped would force Washington to compromise. Energy markets have adjusted and alternative supplies have continued to flow.
“The balance of power has tilted against Iran a bit,” said Iranian analyst Arash Azizi. Iran is losing some of the leverage it had over the Strait of Hormuz because it has been unable to close it fully, he said, adding that the U.S. naval blockade was “really hitting Iran.”
Azizi said Tehran had expected disruption in the strait to trigger a major shock to the global economy and drive Washington back to the negotiating table. “It hasn’t happened, really,” he said. Other countries had adapted, exposing limits to Iran’s ability to inflict economic pain on the region and beyond.
Whether the pressure will force concessions remains unclear, the regional sources said. Tehran has failed to impose the costs it hoped would break Washington’s resolve but has shown little sign of abandoning demands for sanctions relief, access to frozen assets and recognition of its security role in Hormuz.
Still, a new formula for resolving the standoff is now under discussion between mediators and Iran, the sources said.
CAN TEHRAN OUTLAST THE SQUEEZE?
Three senior Iranian sources acknowledged that Washington’s campaign is becoming increasingly difficult to withstand. The latest measures have sharply restricted Tehran’s ability to access foreign currency, import goods and tap global financing networks that have helped keep the economy afloat.
Iranian leaders fear a worsening economy, marked by surging prices, weaker trade and pressure on household incomes, could reignite nationwide unrest that has repeatedly challenged the Islamic Republic.
Shortages of key imports, including fuel and wheat, are becoming an increasing concern, officials said.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the strategy as a “one-two punch” combining the blockade with “the toughest sanctions in history.”
“It is going to work in Iran and we are going to collapse this regime,” he told CNBC.
For some U.S., Israeli and regional officials, such strains strengthen hopes that economic pressure could eventually carry political consequences inside Iran by triggering unrest, widening rifts within the leadership and weakening its grip on power.
Others remain sceptical that economic and military coercion will produce a political rupture, pointing to decades of failed efforts to destabilise the Islamic Republic and Tehran’s willingness to suppress dissent. They argue Iran’s rulers may again prove more resilient than their adversaries expect.
THE RESILIENCE TEST
Dennis Ross, a former U.S. negotiator, said Washington may be interpreting Iran’s economic distress as evidence of strategic success when the reality is more complicated. Tehran remains determined to demonstrate it can control Hormuz, but appears to be calibrating its use of force while keeping further escalation in reserve.
The Revolutionary Guards may believe Iran can absorb the economic pain and outlast the pressure rather than compromise, Ross said.
“The Iranians have consistently surprised us in terms of their resiliency,” he added, saying he doubted economic and military pressure alone would force a retreat. Hardliners, he said, may believe they can endure and ultimately secure what they want.
Resilience may depend as much on public tolerance as Tehran’s ability to absorb economic hardship, said Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
“Of course, the economic squeeze raises the risk of public unrest, but for now, a wartime mentality appears to have a significant hold over the population,” said Ozcelik. “Foreign military intervention, civilian casualties and the perception of a wider civilization confrontation with a U.S.-led order are sustaining a degree of ‘Iran-first’ patriotic support, tolerance or simply patience with the regime.”
The result is a more stubborn impasse than Washington may have anticipated. Economic pressure is deepening the pain, but Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards may see endurance, backed by the threat of escalation, as leverage rather than a reason to concede.
The key question is not whether Iran is hurting, but whether it is hurting enough to compromise before either side slips toward another confrontation, the regional sources said.
Ross said the clearest path to a deal may lie in the dispute over shipping fees through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran could abandon any demand for a toll while retaining the right to charge for legitimate navigational, security or environmental services, he said.
Such an arrangement could give both sides a claim to victory, allowing Tehran to step back without appearing to capitulate.
“If you could announce that the Strait were reopened,” Ross said, “I think Trump would do a deal.”
Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Writing by Samia Nakhoul; Editing by Ros Russell
Undercover cops and operatives working the internet sites, provoking and agitating people into violence? Oh my Goodness… Are they working for our police or some foreign polices?
RT Jo Bogan I only ask because someone is telling me through this ear piece embeded into my eardrum that you are connected with Sir Rope and he has been found out to be a Cop.
Commenter Thompson
Answer to your question is an implied no, not some type of avoidance, I only know the Federal cops from the airport, which itself is some sort of international jurisdiction. Anyway why do you ask, anyone in a blogg can be a princess if they want, are you collecting evidence ? 😂
RT Joe Bogan : May I bring it to your attention that NSW is not Federal and that the Federal Cops are in each State & Territory .
I don’t guess , I also noticed that you did not reply to my question .
I forgot to put Japan in my “all wars are bankers wars” comment below.
Japan was printing money during ww2, first they exited the central banking system according to the contracted timetable, it was 1941 I’m pretty sure. Then BoJ started printing “banana money” which was BoJ dollars, BoJ pesos, BoJ whatever throughout east Asia, pushing them onto the various countries in order to fund their empire ( which included Taiwan and Korea ).
Well we all know how that worked out.
I think Korten is close to the truth.
But apparently people on Earth are subjected to a condition of polarity.
That being said, it means that the more energy the Earth receives from outside the solar system, (gamma rays etcetera which actually how the Earth grows in size and mass) the more we on Earth have to split into two. God Bad etcetera. (apparently represented in the black and white tiles and the 2 pillars in Freemasonry)
So it’s like we Humans and animals on Earth have no choice in splitting this ‘Galactic’ energy, which results in what’s called a ‘Dog eat Dog’ world.
Somehow Freemasonry knows this but I suspect that they use it in nefarious ways letting BOTH dogs into their lodges and then using that power to rule.
Let’s face it.
Some of those Freemasons which include the big biker gangs and a lot of dumbed down lower grade initiates just use the lodges for making money then give 10% til the back to the lodge while participating in “Will to Good” activities like walks and runs for Cancer and other such charities that never address a real cure for anything accept more drugs that don’t cure 99% of the diseases. Then you can watch them themselves die from things like cancer etcetera and all they can say is ” Well I lived longer than I was supposed to” which covers up the real Elephant in the room being real natural cures being shat upon and sidelined. ( it makes me so angry to see the continuous suffering that this mindset causes)
At the moment I’m watching 3 Freemasons battling Cancer of one type or another which I suspect was brought on by the ‘Safe and Effective’ crap and they haven’t realised what is going on. All they say is that they are on some sort of “new drug” that helps them. They are worried and stunned by their most likely short lived future. But still don’t connect the dots. And if I say anything, I get a weird look and they shake their head.
This type of situation is astounding to me.
Even before the ‘Safe and Effective’ business they were like that.
And don’t worry any of you ‘Brothers and Sisters’ out there. I’ve been watching and studying this mob since the 70’s, and the obvious top down power over tactics of Freemasonry (with a twist of Jewness) maintains the dumbed down lower initiates into the realm of the absurd.
I’ve seen a few wake up to it and all they do is go quiet and turn into introverts. Still hooked by their Oath.
So back to the Alien business.
NO DOUBT the ‘Brothers’ have some sort of plan to control that sort of ‘Disclosure’. (like that Greer fellow etcetera)
But I must say that it’s going to get interesting when the fake Aleins meet the real ones.
I’ll give you a hint.
If you can see the UFO easily it’s either a fake or a nasty one.
The real ‘visitors’ use a completely different technology which is invisible to the naked eye. And apparently don’t interfere with our ‘Good dog Bad Dog’ shenanigans.
Apparently, when the shit is about to hit the fan, they just beam up the peaceful humans and let the dogs eat each other.
That’s in the Bible.
You know.
Where two are in the field and one disappears sort of thing.
I reckon that that is what happened to the Freemasons precious Pyramid people.
Sounds good but it looks like they didn’t eat each other completely.
Praying won’t help if you are not truly peaceful.
Don’t vote for Pauline or the Orange man.
Vote for Unconditional Peace.
And practice it.
That’s not as easy as it seems.
I’m still a bit cranky.
Maybe I should give up coffee 😁😁😁.
Coz that fires me up.
Maybe that is why the Coffee Shops are everywhere.☕☕☕👹👹👹
Keep the plebs on edge.
Commenter Thompson
I hope to never return to Sydney and if federal is based in Canberra that would be part of NSW so just as bad.
Any information I share or conclusions I draw ( 99% at least ) originate from public domain material.
I had an unintended stopover in Sydney more than 20 years ago, I was transiting with jet lag.
Guess again !!!
R T H Joe Bogan; Are you a NSW or Federal Cop ?
‘That said, there are agendas that neither you, nor i, have any idea about as they are “confidential” . . .’
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Well that’s certainly true. When you dominate global compute you get to know everything in advance of everyone else. That’s why the dominance of compute is central to the singularity, which is exponential by nature.
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It’s actually rather interesting observing the Neanderthal’s getting more confused and angry by the day as the singularity advances.
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They are simply biologically incapable of extricating themselves from the primitivism of their own chemical biology, which for some reason known only to themselves, they assume to be advanced?
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re: ” Going to War is STILL a benevolent option to avert abuse,”
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Indeed, but it depends whether it’s really a war for our own survival or for someone else’s benefit. It’s a bit hard for us Australian Normies to tell unless the Snake Oil Merchants manage to fill our ears with fear and horror of any ‘evil gooks’,
Look at the balance sheet at the end of these wars and you can see the loser is predetermined, a lot of MIC products are consumed, then when all the accounting is done the Bank of International Settlements is called in to collect the “debt”. The Persian attack is no different to others, the Weapons of Mass Destruction are same as 25 years ago in Iraq, ( meanwhile Turkiye, Saudis Arabia and Pakistan have made their own NATO group ).
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The famous Bretton Woods Conference took place from: 1–22 July 1944, so the soldiers could keep using MIC products while the outcome of the war was already factored in.
Officially, it was the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
Key dates:
1 July 1944 — Conference opened.
3 weeks — 44 Allied countries participated.
22 July 1944 — Conference concluded and the agreements were signed.
27 December 1945 — The IMF and World Bank (IBRD) formally came into existence after sufficient countries ratified the agreements.
1 March 1947 — IMF began financial operations
Bretton Woods is a very expensive ski resort in New Hampshire.
So they take two years to work out who owes what to whom, and how the debt is going to be funded.
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Under Menzies’ treasurer Harold Holt the existing Commonwealth Bank corporate entity was preserved and renamed the Reserve Bank of Australia, retaining the central-banking functions, while the commercial banking operations went into the newly created Commonwealth Banking Corporation. I don’t know the story but I presume HH was bucking the system.
All that’s left of Harold Holt is a Memorial Swimming Pool – funny huh – that is the sense of humour of our secret government. There is no Paul Keating pool or Peter Costello pool, so they presumably learned correct behaviour.
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Bank of Korea (한국은행) was established on 12 June 1950.
It was created under the Bank of Korea Act, replacing the central-banking functions previously performed under the Japanese colonial system.
First Governor: Kim Yoo-taik (김유택).
The Korean War began only 13 days later, on 25 June 1950.
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Iraq — Modern independent CBI: After the 2003 invasion, the Central Bank Law No. 56 of 2004 established the modern legal framework and explicitly strengthened the bank’s independence.
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Vietnam – who actually won the war ? Sept 21 1956 Vietnam joined the IMF, after the war the north reunified with the south and joined the global banking system 1976.
South Vietnam’s reserves in 1975
By early 1975, the Republic of Vietnam was under severe financial pressure. A CIA assessment reported that its dollar and gold reserves had fallen from about US$154 million at the end of 1973 to roughly US$124 million by early 1975.
But there was a separate and much more tangible asset: gold held by the National Bank of Vietnam in Saigon.
Contemporary/later Vietnamese reporting puts the amount at approximately 16 tonnes of gold—about 1,234 gold bars—still in the National Bank’s vaults in April 1975. Where did that gold come from? There’s an important earlier history.
South Vietnam inherited approximately 33 tonnes of Vietnamese gold that had been taken to France after WWII. Negotiations eventually resulted in France returning the gold in 1958. This was significant because it allowed South Vietnam to reduce its dependence on the French franc system and move more decisively toward the dollar/Western monetary system.
So there was a progression:
French Indochina → French-held Vietnamese gold → returned to South Vietnam → National Bank of Vietnam → 16 tonnes remaining in Saigon in 1975.
The attempt to move the gold This is where the story becomes particularly interesting. As the North Vietnamese offensive accelerated in April 1975, South Vietnamese officials considered using the remaining gold reserves to obtain desperately needed foreign financing.
According to Nguyễn Tiến Hưng, South Vietnam’s Minister of Planning, the government considered transferring the gold to Switzerland, specifically the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, where it could potentially serve as collateral for a European loan to purchase military supplies.
When that plan became difficult, the proposed destination reportedly shifted toward an account associated with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The transfer was never successfully completed before the government collapsed.
And this is where some of the popular accounts become muddled.
Was the gold actually removed? Apparently not.
A U.S. Treasury statement on May 2, 1975, only days after the fall of Saigon, specifically distinguished the official gold reserves from privately owned gold and stated that the official gold of the South Vietnamese government and central bank had not been shipped out of Vietnam.
As long as the Ayatollahs and IRGC have enough, Like North Korea, there’ll be no change.
Repeating the Enlightened State of ANY Human Species (there’s plenty of them) is to UNITE so that those who commit atrocities are NOT immune just because they cross a border. A truly empowered international court & single world-wide military force could police the world, although subject to a Congress of Nations rather than any one totalitarian body. UN features the Power of Veto over smaller nations, & so fails dismally. A prior, recent comment:
https://cairnsnews.org/2026/01/25/is-donald-trump-really-creating-some-sort-of-new-world-order/#comment-538863
As shared before, we already have an Old World Order. A New World Order is simply a shift of power into the hands of People, not money-cartel monsters. Trump doing this alone is an impossible task, triggering resentment instead. That said, there are agendas that neither you, nor i, have any idea about as they are “confidential” bolstered by “mistrust” in respective governments.
But Awareness is growing not just rapidly, but exponentially. “Disclosure” need not only apply to an abundance of benevolent advanced species watching our every move, yet unable to intervene as that breaks Galactic Law. There are also malevolent species that made alliances with the military-industrial complex (call this the Cabal) that Eisenhower tried to warn us about in the 1950s. Nor did JFK have the power to terminate this trend.
Paradoxically, Rising Awareness gives permission to benevolent species to intervene, if necessary. If we collectively maintain “Love One Another, as I have loved You” they have permission. Going to War is STILL a benevolent option to avert abuse, as it is “the most loving thing to do.” Think about that!
Iran is not being squeezed as China has been supplied Iranian oil through deal with refineries in India who then dispatch it directly to China,also it is being sent through the Black Sea where America does not dare to go.China and Russia plus North Korea want this war to continue,as the longer it goes American munitions will be reduced to critical,and the huge financial cost will eventually bankrupt the country,as they go into their Mid Term elections.
What of that nuclear weapon Iran was accused of having in their possession ?
After the Ayatollah got whacked one would think that would have been used on Israel .
Duck looks into his reflection and sees Nord Stream a grinning Joe no, Baltic Sea cables no, the protective covering of fibre cores floating without purpose out into the Indian Ocean following the wake of George Washington and destroyers.
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Destroyers 🤔 although the waters are murky is that a pickaxe being hit by a mushroom?
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Resilience is a dirty word.
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The “Yankee Dogs”/small hats wanted to ‘own Iran’ along with it’s middle east/ Islam influence. (and stop it’s central banking freedom)
And or
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Use the Iran conflict and the Straight of Hormuz chokehold trigger a world financial collapse. (note Washington’s refusal to pay for damages from the war and also add their own blockades if it looked like Iran was letting non small hats ships pass + Lloyds of London insurance squeeze)
But if we look closer.
Either way the small hats will get their way (they think).
Because China, Pakistan and some others are resisting that western desired outcome.
The big boys with their little hats would be working overtime like a pack of wild dogs trying to surround a herd of wilder beasts in full gallop.
We ‘norms’ only get the dregs of the information.
Meanwhile us ‘norms’ are like birds in a tree swauking at a rubber snake on a string that is being pulled along by some fellow wearing a small hat.
I’ve got a very strong feeling that it’s better for us ‘norms’ to sit back and wait and see what the actual outcome will turn out to be when the smoke and mirrors clear.
Better for our peace of mind.
Better for our daily lives.
Better for our overall health.
So when the shit does actually hit the fan we’ll have the sensibility to duck. Instead of ducking and weaving at shadows and rumours of shadows.
Sour grapes from Bessent. Iran didn’t collapse in 24 hours as Trump and co expected. Trump and co are still negotiating and squeezing their way out of a jam trying to save face because if Trump keeps bombing Teheran, Teheran could turn Bibi’s Tel Aviv into Ghaza.
Bibi’s had a taste of it and he found American ‘Patriot’ protection’ to be actually very limited in capacity. The surrounding Arab statelets carved out and subdivided by the British and the French post WW1 and hosting US bases also came to the same conclusion.
Let’s hope Trump and Bessent don’t lose too much face. It’s bad for business. Trump was never going to fix the Israel-Teheran problem in 24 hours. Just like he was never going to fix Ukraine in 24 hours as he told us while Biden was on his way to a nursing home. But at least he and Bessent and the Insiders might have made a few fortunes playing the oil price at will.
“CAN TEHRAN OUTLAST THE SQUEEZE?” – Yeah…
During last week’s G20 Summit in Asheville (01.09.26), U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant outlined the situation clearly.
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[quote]. – ‘Well, to be clear, the economic outcomes [of Operation Economic Outcast] could not have happened without the initial kinetic success. . . . So, they [Iran] are in extreme distress militarily, but financially, we are starting to see, – you (Larry Kudlow) interviewed me at the economic club of New York in the spring of 2025, and I said, we are going to collapse the Iranian currency. It was 800,000 to the dollar. Its shot through 2,000,000 now. So they don’t have access to hard currency. Inflation is through the roof. They’re having to print money at the central bank to pay government employees to pay troops. We’re seeing you know, inconceivably this regime in a country that has the third greatest energy resources in the world, – they import gasoline. . . . Unfortunately, there was a branch of an Egyptian bank in Dubai, that funneled more than $1.8 billion to the regime, and we used a Patriot Act authority, that we have not used before, – and we are shutting them down. We did not sanction them because we did not want to go back to the Egyptian parent. But everyone should expect that we know who you are, you know who you are, and we’re probably going to announce a bank sanction this week, and we will announce one the week after.’ [unquote]. (19:27-23:00).
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So, next week we’ll be hearing about which banks are being sanctioned. I’d guess there’s plenty of panic in the banking HQ’s right now? But what was probably more informative was what Bessant said later. In this following statement, which he made abundantly clear, that it will said on worldwide TV, – so everyone knows the deal, – he then went on to name the City of London’s piratical offshore Treasure Island: the British Virgin Islands.
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[quote]. – ‘Well, that’s what happened with this bank in Dubai. And it could be [other] entities. It could be airline leasing companies, which we’ll be looking at. It could be anyone who does business with the IRGC. We are tracking down the IRGC’s assets. I will say it on worldwide TV, just so you know. We know where in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are at these trust companies. We know the hundred million dollar houses you have around the world, and we are going to freeze those. Our partners are going to close all that down. So, we are going to go after the regime’s illegitimate assets that they have stolen from the Iranian people and those can go back to the Iranian people.’ [unquote]. (23:23-23:38).
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[quote]. – ‘Iran reminds me of when I was kid in South Carolina. We lived near a swamp and as a result, we’d end up with a lot of poisonous snakes in our yard. And you would take either a rake, a machete, or paddle from a boat and you would cut the head off. But the snake’s tail kept wiggling, and you had to bury the head of the snake, because the head of the snake was still poisonous and there was venom there. So, we are burying the head of the Iranian snake. The snake doesn’t know its dead yet, but it will stop wiggling when the sun goes down. And so the Iranian regime, they are demised and they will figure it out.’ [unquote]. (28:00- ).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYc57qiECw
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This particular operation is bigger than Iran: the Bull’s proxy.
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