Scott Bessant's claim: We put Iran under an air blockade.
Officials of the Islamic Republic can no longer leave the country.
Scott Bessant, the US Treasury Secretary, claimed that Washington had put Iran in an airlock by imposing extensive restrictions on international flights and severely limited the possibility of foreign travel by officials of the Islamic Republic.
Referring to these restrictions, Basant said: "If Iranian government officials really love their country, so much the better; because now they have no way to leave the country and they can't travel anywhere by plane. "/ Jamran.