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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar and Nicole Wootton-Cane

Iran-US war latest: Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ arrives as Tehran threatens ‘earthquake-like’ retaliation

Donald Trump’s administration is set to lay out a programme of sanctions against Iran it has dubbed “economic D-Day”, despite warnings from Tehran that this will be met with an immediate response.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent wrote in the FT yesterday that: “At dawn begins an economic D-Day – the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.”

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