Iran: rejects US threat of an ‘economic D-Day’, calling it “an admission of defeat”

(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Iran has rejected the US threat of an ‘economic D-Day’, describing it as an ‘admission of defeat’ on the part of the United States, which is expected to set out the details of this campaign later today, almost six months after the start of the war in the Middle East.

The US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced in an opinion piece published in the Financial Times that today would be an ‘economic D-Day’, a reference to the Allied landings in France in 1944, aimed at severing Iran’s last ‘lifelines’. He also stated on X that the United States had “dismantled Iran’s military capabilities, destroyed almost 100 per cent of its military factories and put an end to its nuclear programme”.

"His argument doesn’t hold water", replied Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, asking why, if Washington had achieved those objectives, it would have been necessary to carry out “the greatest financial invasion in history” and mobilise “all the institutions and powers” of the United States.

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