Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday dismissed US President Donald Trump’s economic punishment plan for Tehran as a continuation of “failed policies”, which he said would bring Washington “further defeat”.
“The so-called ‘Economic D-Day’ is a diversion from America’s own crisis: unprecedented debt & surging interest costs. This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
Doubling down on failed policies will only bring further defeat — and enmity of Iranians,” Araghchi said in a post on X. In a post on his Truth Social, Trump said he was announcing “the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!
TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!
“ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences,” he said. Trump has long pursued a “maximum pressure” policy of economic sanctions on Iran and reinstated those measures after he took office in January 2025, mirroring his approach during his first term. Earlier reporting noted: US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened “tremendous” punishment on any country that helps or does business with Iran, an economic pressure campaign that comes as the war in the Middle East nears its sixth month. Earlier reporting noted: Calling it the “most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country”, he also listed several activities that he said need to stop immediately. This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale,” he said in a Truth Social post.
Earlier reporting noted: “No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me.
