Donald Trump threatens economic retaliation against countries supporting Iran

We must not annoy him... Donald Trump increased the economic pressure on Iran by threatening, on Wednesday, reprisals against countries that continued to provide him with financial or commercial support. On his Truth Social network, the American president assured that “ANY country that allows its financial institutions, its businesses, its airports or its government entities to offer any form of lifeline to Iran will itself face TERRIBLE economic repercussions”.

In this same post, Donald Trump believes that Tehran “failed to seize” the “great opportunity” to reach an agreement. He now announces “the most crushing economic operation ever undertaken against a country” and evokes an “economic war never seen before”, without specifying the nature of the new measures or sanctions that Washington could implement.

No country is directly cited or targeted

The American president is particularly targeting circuits likely, according to him, to allow Iran to circumvent international pressure. “Oil smuggling, currency exchange, cash transfers, money changers, ship registries, front companies – all of this must stop NOW,” he wrote. However, no country is directly cited in this warning. The previous week, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had already threatened Iran with economic isolation “like the world has never seen”.