Bessent Warns of Unprecedented Economic Measures Against Iran

📉 TREASURY — A sanctions architect says what comes next has no precedent. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Bessent's framing — "never seen" — signals escalation beyond existing oil embargo and SWIFT exclusions. With Iran already at maximum sanctions exposure on paper, the credible new tools are secondary sanctions on Asian buyers, full asset freezes on ADNOC-Iran linkages, or dollar-clearing cutoffs targeting neutral intermediaries. Timing matters: this lands 24 hours after ADNOC tanker strikes, giving financial escalation a fresh pretext.