{"id":584007,"date":"2026-08-14T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:16:08","slug":"us-treasury-secretary-bessent-says-us-to-apply-measures-never-before-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584007\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury Secretary Bessent says US to apply measures &#8216;never before&#8217; on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that the United States is going to apply measures that have &#8220;never been seen&#8221; on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-905349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bessent<\/a> said in an interview on on Newsmax&#8217;s &#8220;Rob Schmitt Tonight&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">economic isolation<\/a> like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that will keep anything from going in or out of the Iranian ports,&#8221; Bessent said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">This came shortly after US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that &#8220;goal number one is to keep oil and gas cheap for the American people all across our country. Goal number two is to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon,&#8221; emphasizing the importance of an economic approach to confronting Iran.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM Commander Adm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brad Cooper<\/a> visited Israel on Monday and spoke to senior IDF commanders about US-Israeli military relations and the war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Cpt.Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command (CENTCOM) told The Jerusalem Post that reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper<\/a> said during his visit to Israel that he had pushed for renewed strikes against Iran were untrue.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins told the Post that claims that Cooper had pushed for a resumption of the conflict against Iran were &#8220;an outright fabrication. It&#8217;s not true at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that the United States is going to apply measures that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10841,42,87,143294,143295,53065,11487,43,2635,40,38,41,39,76279,730],"class_list":["post-584007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-us","tag-iran-us-conflict","tag-irgc","tag-jd-vance","tag-news","tag-scott-bessent","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}