{"id":4296,"date":"2026-08-22T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:40:40","slug":"u-s-iran-keep-up-hostile-rhetoric-ahead-of-new-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Iran keep up hostile rhetoric ahead of new sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday\u2019s scheduled announcement of new U.S. economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran\u2019s most important trading partners including China.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4292\">Why this year\u2019s foodborne outbreaks have made more Americans sick<\/a><\/p><p>As the war neared six months old, the two sides were not exchanging fire but also not pursuing peace talks. All the while, oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have virtually halted as Tehran clings to its leverage by threatening to strike any unauthorized oil tankers that attempt to transit the narrow waterway.<\/p><div><\/div><p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. ET on Monday amid promises to reveal \u201cthe toughest sanctions in history\u201c on Iran while also urging China to cooperate with Washington. China buys more than 80% of Iran\u2018s shipped oil, according to 2025 data from analytics firm Kpler. Beijing urged diplomacy.<\/p><section><div><div><div><div><\/div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4295\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5935c49bccea9b2afd17f337133c765f.webp\" width=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5935c49bccea9b2afd17f337133c765f.webp 760w, https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5935c49bccea9b2afd17f337133c765f-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<div><div><div><div><svg><\/svg><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div><div><svg><\/svg><\/div><div><ul><li><\/li><li><\/li><li><\/li><li><button><\/button><div><\/div><\/li><li><\/li><li><span>Add to Google<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div><div>Trump Warns Iran of \u2018Economic D-Day\u2019 as War Nears 6 Months<\/div><div><span>02:29<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><p>Iran\u2018s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Saturday that the imminent U.S. announcement of new economic sanctions on Iran was an \u201cassertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cSuch secondary sanctions find no foundation in international law,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p><p>President Donald Trump, who has warned of economic consequences against any country that provides \u201cany type of lifeline to Iran,\u201d said on Friday that Washington was observing \u201cwhat happens\u201d in the conflict.<\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cThey would love to make a deal, but they\u2019re not ready to make the right deal, in my opinion,\u201d Trump said of Iran.<\/p><p>While the U.S. has effectively blockaded Iranian vessels in their ports, the Strait of Hormuz remained bottled up with thousands of seafarers stranded on hundreds of vessels. Only four commodity ships sailed along the strait on Thursday, none of them large crude carriers or liquefied natural gas tankers, ship-tracking data showed.<\/p><p>However, Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait following repeated requests from Baghdad, Iran\u2019s state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.<\/p><p>IRNA said obtaining special permission for Iraqi tankers was one of Baghdad\u2019s main requests during Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf\u2019s visit to Iraq.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4291\">Trump tries new midterm message to supporters: \u2018Pretend, please, that I\u2019m on the ballot\u2019<\/a><\/p><p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the U.S. military helped move a seven-day average of 8 million barrels a day of oil through the strait. That\u2019s down from more than 20 million per day before the war or about one of every five barrels consumed worldwide.<\/p><p>U.S. attacks have severely diminished Iran\u2018s economy and devastated its navy and air force, but Tehran maintains enough missile and drone capability to impede oil tanker traffic and attack regional rivals.<\/p><div><\/div><p>Trump, meanwhile, has yet to achieve objectives he set at the start of the war such as dismantling Iran\u2018s nuclear program \u2014 the state of which remains uncertain given that U.N. inspectors have been shut out since 2025 \u2014 and creating conditions for Iranians to overthrow their clerical rulers.<\/p><p>Thousands have been killed, including 168 Iranian school children on the first day of the war. The U.S. has reported more than 750 military personnel wounded and 18 killed.<\/p><p>The chief of staff of Iran\u2018s armed forces, Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, promised on Friday that Iran would respond to enemy threats militarily with \u201ccrushing, punishing and devastating responses.\u201d<\/p><p>Still, President Masoud Pezeshkian called for a diplomatic solution.<\/p><p>\u201cIt would be better to end the war today, when we are powerful and have dignity, and the whole world acknowledges our victory and emphasizes that America, contrary to all regulations, attacked our schools, hospitals, and infrastructure and is hated in the world,\u201d Pezeshkian said, according to the ISNA news agency.<\/p><p>Ghalibaf, the country\u2019s main negotiator in mediated talks with the U.S., acknowledged the strain on Iran\u2018s economy in comments to Iranian and Iraqi businesspeople late on Thursday.<\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cNo matter how much military power we have, we won\u2019t survive if people are hungry and we don\u2019t have financial turnover, economic growth and national production,\u201d Ghalibaf said, according to official news agency IRNA.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4289\">Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after editor, reporter oppose military interference<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday\u2019s scheduled announcement of new U.S. economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran\u2019s most important trading partners including China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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