Can Donald Trump bankroll a victory where missiles couldn't?
Decades of pressure and airstrikes haven't budged the regime, but Washington is betting its wallet is mightier than its warheads.
So, the strategy is back to the basics: stop the flow of cash. Donald Trump is banking on the idea that if you squeeze an economy hard enough, the politics eventually have to cave. It is the classic US playbook—if you can’t bomb them into submission, you try to starve them into it.
The goal is to cut Iran off from global markets entirely. It’s a high-stakes game of economic strangulation designed to make maintaining a war machine too expensive to stomach. No missiles, just spreadsheets and blocked accounts.
It is a bold move to assume that a country running on pure defiance will suddenly care about inflation.
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