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Scott Bessent: “We've frozen Iranian bank accounts.”

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FULL REMARKS: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Speaks At Reagan National Economic Forum

Published May 30, 2026 | Video Starts at 22:50

And 2200, the shells and missiles and drones here, five or six hundred there. All of a sudden it's, oh, here they have at it. So We've frozen Iranian bank accounts. after they, after they started getting bombed by Iran. Yes, but it was a big, is a big strategic, big mistake failure on the financial side. And you jumped right in. (22:50–22:55)

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“Inflation's probably over 200% [in Iran].”
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“Kharg island, which is the Iranian oil export facility, is shut down.”
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“We have seized about $1 billion of their crypto and just outright seized it.”
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“Eggs are down 90% now.”
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“Real wages grew about 17%.”
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“38% of Americans have no exposure to our great equity market.”
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“He [Kevin Warsh] said he's going to get rid of forward guidance.”
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“We told ourselves that so long as goods were cheaper overseas, it did not matter whether factories went dark in Michigan, Ohio or…”
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“Economic security is national security.”
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“Economic security is national security.”
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“A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship or refine its needs, gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others.”
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“China's accession to the WTO and the granting of permanent normal trade relations were sold to the American people as steps that would level…”
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“The pandemic did not create our brittle supply chains so much as expose them.”
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“Today, the United States still imports most of its rare earth minerals that are essential to the technologies that will shape military and…”
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“Only a small share of the active pharmaceutical ingredients that we use in the United States are made here.”
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“American shipbuilding capacity which once helped to secure victory in war and prosperity in peace has shrunk to a fraction of global…”
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“America has been asleep. We mistook comfort for strength. We substituted efficiency for resilience and consumption as a measure of…”
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“Cheaper was always better. Offshoring was inevitable. Industrial policy was unfashionable. And strategic dependence was acceptable so long…”
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“America should never again put itself in a position where its security depends on supply chains and it does not control factories it no…”
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“Trade policy, industrial capacity, and national security are inseparable.”
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“President Trump issued the America First Trade Policy Memorandum, a sweeping directive to Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, USTR and…”
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“Last April, the President declared a national emergency tied to the cumulative effects of foreign trade practices and announced reciprocal…”
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“President Trump signed executive action on processed critical minerals and derivative products under section 232, expressly linking import…”
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“President Trump signed an executive order to restore America's maritime dominance, established a new Office of Maritime and Industrial…”
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“President Trump signed an executive order to fill the strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients reserve so that America is never again…”
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“The White House also highlighted further action to impose tariffs on patented pharmaceutical products, while noting parallel section 232…”
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“America has awakened. We are alert to the fact that a resilient economy is the foundation of a strong republic.”
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“Trade policy, industrial policy, and national security policy must all fit together or they will each fail separately.”
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“Under President Trump's leadership, we are alert to the risk we can no longer ignore and attune to the responsibility we can no longer…”
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“Iran must give up their highly enriched uranium and cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
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“This is the first time the Iranians have been willing to discuss the nuclear subject.”
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“Operation Economic Fury, where we have really cut them off and they are at the end of their tether now.”
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“We did not have regime change, but we changed the regime. The first level leaders decapitated, the second level decapitated.”
FULL REMARKS: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Speaks At Reagan National Economic Forum | Uploaded May 30, 2026 | 19:24-19:33
“Treasury, we're doing the financial blockade.”
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“The blockade did that. We think they have the lowest amount of oil on the water. Their only client is China.”
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“We're never going to have to talk about a tax cut again because these are permanent.”
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“The economy has been very resilient through all this [the war].”
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“It's been less than $200 in extra the gasoline cost [for many families].”
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“With the Trump accounts, any child born during President Trump's term, they get $1,000 seed investment from treasury.”
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“Families with children under 18 can open a Trump account and they put up to $5,000 in there.”
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“Michael and Susan Dell, $6.25 billion to American children.”
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“20 states so far that I think are going to add to these [Trump accounts].”
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“The Treasury Secretary, the Fed Chair have lunch or breakfast every week.”
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“The United States President Trump, with his policies has made the United States the best place.”
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“Everything we have done since the ceasefire began has been defensive.”
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“Admiral Cooper, General Kane, Secretary Hegseth have been very clear about [the defensive nature of actions].”
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“We have the deal, we don't have the deal, but we just maintain the blockade and we keep squeezing them.”
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“Every day that goes by [is] much worse for them [Iran] or we go back to kinetic action.”
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“We put more sanctions on yesterday. We sanctioned their two airlines.”
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“There are some things that we can take off to help the Iranian people.”
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