US_ Bessent: Iranian Leadership Wiring Money Out ‘Like Crazy’ (Jill McLaughlin - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Bessent: Iranian Leadership Wiring Money Out ‘Like Crazy’

The end of Iran’s Islamic leadership may be near, the Treasury Secretary tells senators.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Jill McLaughlin
2/5/2026|Updated: 2/5/2026


U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that Iranian leaders were moving money out of the country “like crazy.”

“The rats are leaving the ship, and that is a good sign that they know the end may be near,” Bessent told the committee.

The Treasury Department’s monitoring of Iranian financial transactions is part of the Trump administration’s strategy to put pressure on Iranian leader Ali Khamenei’s Islamic Republic as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, Bessent said.

A dollar shortage and collapse of the Iranian currency is causing banks to fail and sparking rocket-high inflation.

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