‘Rats are leaving the ship’: Scott Bessent says U.S. Treasury has new goal as ‘economic chaos’ in Iran becomes ‘crazy’

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

As President Donald Trump is set to meet Wednesday with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss negotiations with Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says “the rats are leaving the ship” amid economic chaos in the Islamic Republic, and his office will focus on getting money back for the Iranian people that the regime has been wiring out “like crazy.”

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