Iran hit with sanctions as officials move millions out of the country while protests rage: ‘Rats fleeing the ship’

Bogdan Hofbauer

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday slapped sanctions on top Iranian officials behind the deadly protest crackdown as they rushed to move tens of millions of dollars out of the country. “We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship, because we can see tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, snuck out of the country, by the Iranian leadership,” Bessent told Newsmax on Wednesday. “We are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world…whether it

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