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Bessent's "Suffocating" Iranian Regime Strategy Materializes In Kharg Island Satellite Imagery
Bessent's "Suffocating" Iranian Regime Strategy Materializes In Kharg Island Satellite Imagery
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's description of "suffocating" the Iranian regime through economic and financial pressure, whether via sanctions or the US military blockade of the world's most critical maritime chokepoint, now appears to be showing up in the data.
New geospatial intelligence indicates that Iran's main crude export terminal has gone quiet, while a separate report suggests seaborne oil exports have effectively been halted for the past month.
The first report comes from Bloomberg, which cited European satellite imagery showing a...
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"The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what has been going on," said Trump, adding "If you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation."
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