{"id":820317,"date":"2026-08-20T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:58:11","slug":"trump-warns-economic-consequences-for-nations-helping-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820317\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns &#8216;economic consequences&#8217; for nations helping Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has warned any country that supports <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran\/t-18996175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> of <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-wars-economic-impact\/t-76891279\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic consequences<\/a>\u00a0as war soon approaches its sixth month with no resolution in sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday that\u00a0&#8220;ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS economic consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US leader described his move as &#8220;economic warfare&#8221; and &#8220;isolation&#8221; on an unprecedented scale as he stepped up an economic pressure campaign on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!&#8221; he said, referring to the Islamic Republic in the superlatives-embellished post.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that nobody other than him had given Tehran what he called &#8220;a greater opportunity to make a deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that Washington needed the support of all its allies to isolate Iran and counter the threat posed by the country.<\/p>\n<p>He compared his plan to an &#8220;ECONOMIC D-DAY&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There were no details of what Trump\u2019s economic steps against nations\u00a0supporting Iran would look like, Trump also did not mention any country by name, other than Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran media reacts to Trump\u2019s &#8220;economic warfare&#8221; warning<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Fars news agency on Thursday called Trump\u2019s latest economic threat the usual &#8220;psychological warfare and propaganda campaign,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Tasnim news agency said the US presidents&#8217; announcement was &#8220;not a new development, as the United States has been trying for years to block any financial and economic ties with Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has &#8220;learned how to circumvent these restrictions and has become very skilled at doing so,&#8221; Tasnim said on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u00a0has warned any country that supports Iran of economic consequences\u00a0as war soon approaches its sixth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-820317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}