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[Fatemeh Bahrami – Anadolu Agency]    (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/authors/jasim-al-azzawi/) ()    by (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/authors/jasim-al-azzawi/) Jasim Al-Azzawi           (Play)    (Pause)    (Stop)    Listen     0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x +    (Voice) () Default  Ready    Washington has changed weapons. It has not changed its problem. On 24 August, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood before reporters and announced what officials had spent ten days branding as an “economic D-Day”   against Iran. He called it “Operation Economic Outcast.” He promised to “sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.” The military campaign had stalled. The financial one now carries the weight instead.  A threat without a timeline  Bessent’s language left no room for ambiguity. He warned that any entity helping Iran launder money “will be removed from the US dollar system,” adding that “the clock just started ticking.” But he named no countries. He set no deadline. When a reporter pressed him on whether Chinese banks might be targeted, given that China buys roughly 90 percent of Iran’s oil, he offered only a warning that “no one is above the reach of US sanctions.” He also admitted the obvious limit on his own leverage: “Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?”  That single line does more to explain American strategy than the entire press conference around it. Washington needs a threat big enough to frighten Tehran’s trading partners, but not so big that it destabilises the system the threat depends on. It is coercion with a built-in ceiling, and Iran’s leadership has learned to read where that ceiling sits.  The human cost lands first  Ordinary Iranians felt the pressure before any sanctions took effect. The rial collapsed to more than two million to the US dollar on the open market as Bessent’s announcement approached, even though Iran’s central bank still quotes an official rate near 1.5 million. Inflation now sits close to 90 percent, according to Iran’s own Statistical Center. NPR spoke with a young Iranian woman who said most people now buy groceries on credit because they can no longer pay upfront. Sanctions rarely reach the men making decisions in Tehran. They reach households first, and they reach them fastest.  READ: (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260827-qatar-pledges-support-to-ease-hardships-facing-iranian-people/) Qatar pledges support to ease hardships facing Iranian people   Gulf states are not rushing to applaud  The reaction from Gulf capitals has been telling. Several have spent billions of dollars building pipelines specifically designed to move oil around the Strait of Hormuz, insulating their exports from exactly the kind of chokepoint crisis Washington keeps generating.  Yet when Bessent unveiled his new sanctions push, those same Gulf states offered no public comment. Silence from governments that usually rush to align themselves with Washington’s Iran policy is itself a signal. It suggests quiet scepticism that another round of financial pressure will produce a different result than the last several rounds did.   A currency losing its own argument  The deeper problem sits underneath the sanctions themselves. Threatening to cut a bank out of the dollar system only works if the dollar system remains something everyone wants to stay inside. JPMorgan’s own research desk has tracked the currency’s share of global reserves sliding to its lowest level in two decades, alongside a fifteen-year decline in foreign holdings of US Treasuries.  Iran’s leadership does not need to read American newspapers to notice this trend. It only needs to observe how hesitant Washington’s own allies have become about holding dollar assets. A superpower whose primary financial weapon is losing its universal appeal cannot wield that weapon with the confidence it once did.   Tehran is not blinking  None of this has moved Iran’s military posture an inch. The Revolutionary Guard’s wartime leadership, installed after Israeli and American strikes killed a string of senior commanders earlier this year, has pushed a harder line at every turn. The Guard’s chief commander recently called deterrence “the only prudent and effective means” of confronting what he described as ongoing “enemy conspiracies.” His spokesman went further, warning that Iran would deploy “significantly more destructive and advanced weapons” in any future war. Financial pressure and military defiance are now running on separate tracks, and neither shows signs of bending toward the other.  Same war, new currency  Operation Economic Outcast is not a departure from the war. It is the war continuing by other means, aimed at Iran’s bank accounts instead of its missile sites. But a financial weapon still needs credibility to work, and Washington’s own fiscal position keeps eroding it.    Iran’s economy will suffer under the new sanctions, as it has suffered under the old ones. Its ordinary citizens will absorb most of that suffering, as they always have. What will not change is Tehran’s calculation that American pressure, however loudly announced, still stops short of forcing genuine capitulation. Six months of war taught Iran’s leadership that lesson on the battlefield. Six days of sanctions announcements are unlikely to teach them anything different.   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