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‘Rats fleeing the ship’: US treasury secretary says Iran’s leaders moving funds out of the country
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that his department has tracked the wiring of “tens of millions of dollars” out of the country by Iranian leaders.
“We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship,” he says in an interview with Newsmax. “We are tracing these assets and they will not be able to keep them.”
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