️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Treasury Secretary Bassan on the progress of Operation "Economic Marginal":

️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Treasury Secretary Bassan on the progress of Operation "Economic Marginal":

“Well, first of all, Brett, the tankers, they might get hurt. Many of them just sail away. They just sail on. You know, the Iranians might send three, four, five, six drones after them.

Our great fleet blocks them, but we get from ten, fifteen, sometimes 17,000,000 barrels a day. To put that in perspective, before the conflict started the number was 20. And there are probably another 3,000,000 who are leaving by alternative methods. So that brings us back to somewhere between $13,000,000 and $20,000,000 and that's why we've seen oil come off the spring high.

And in terms of Operation Economic Exclusion, we're blackmailing the Iranians like they've never seen before.

Today I would say that the external flights from Iran, probably more than 80% or 90% of them have been shut down. I'm not sure how"