Sec. Bessent Iran airline shutdown
Iran will certainly respond if the measures Sec. Bessent outlined actually go into effect. The plan is to shut down all Iranian airlines globally starting September 23. Enforcement means denying fuel, landing services, and ticket sales to any carrier that lands. Non-compliance triggers removal from the dollar system. CNBC aired the Treasury Secretary live discussing how this shuts down their aviation sector entirely.
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Aviation, maritime, crypto, gold. On September 23rd, all the Iranian airlines, all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world. And how do we do that? That if they land, you cannot provide them with fuel. You cannot provide them with landing services. You cannot sell them tickets or you will be knocked out of the dollar system. And what we're seeing here
