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US Treasury Convenes Global Banks to Tighten Iran Sanctions Regime

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US Treasury Convenes Global Banks to Tighten Iran Sanctions Regime

🏦 TREASURY β€” Multilateral sanctions coordination is being built while Oman talks quietly run in parallel. πŸ“Œ LOOK CLOSER: Treasury convening global institutions signals Washington is hardening the financial siege even as it pursues a Yemen off-ramp via Oman. The contradiction is deliberate: sanctions tightening raises the cost of Iranian non-compliance while backchannel talks proceed. Banks that attend implicitly close the Turkey-style absorption loophole β€” the one Ankara just exploited.

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