{"id":372747,"date":"2026-08-24T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/experts-react-to-us-financial-offensive-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:00:11","slug":"experts-react-to-us-financial-offensive-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/experts-react-to-us-financial-offensive-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts react to US \u2018financial offensive\u2019 on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/TVkNyJk3TtI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Experts react to US \u2018financial offensive\u2019 on Iran\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TVkNyJk3TtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department threatened damaging new sanctions on countries that refuse to cut economic ties with Iran \u2014 but stopped short of actually imposing big new penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find that the best way to engage with countries is through quiet diplomacy, and we are level-setting with every country to tell them our expectations,\u201d Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. \u201cWe know who they are. They know who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN spoke with experts to on their first reactions to Bessent\u2019s announcement: economist Justin Wolfers and Retired Colonel Cedric Leighton.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Bessent: \u201cWe\u2019re launching an economic onslaught\u201d<br \/>\n0:19 What\u2019s Iran\u2019s response to these threats<br \/>\n3:16 What will this to do to get concessions from Tehran?<br \/>\n4:40 How will this affect the global economy?<br \/>\n7:50 Where does this leave the US military operation?<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury Department threatened damaging new sanctions on countries that refuse to cut economic ties with Iran \u2014 but stopped short of actually imposing big new penalties. \u201cWe find that the best way to engage with countries is through quiet diplomacy, and we are level-setting with every country to tell them our expectations,\u201d Treasury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-372747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Experts react to US \u2018financial offensive\u2019 on Iran | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Experts react to US \u2018financial offensive\u2019 on Iran for free, here on News ISC. 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