Loading ...OPERATION ECONOMIC FURY
JEFF CHILDERS
I’ve waited days for top corporate media to pick up this story, but they’ve gone all Mr. Magoo again. Late last week, Reuters thinly reported, “US sanctions wallets tied to Iran, freezing $344 million in cryptocurrency, Bessent says.” The story was so thin it was just one sentence.
Crypto News provided a little more detail.
https://crypto.news/treasury-freezes-344m-in-iran-crypto/
90 SEC CLIP FROM THE WHITEHOUSE X ACCOUNT DIRECT FRO SCOTT BESSENT
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2049591831957057579?s=20
So far as I can tell—and the facts remain as murky as the water at the Kharg Island dock— the State of Iran owned the seized cryptocurrency. Since crypto’s main purpose is to preserve anonymity (like cash), it was likely used for smuggling, evading international sanctions, funding terror proxies, cybercrimes and ransomware, and other nefarious purposes.
Anyway, Scott Bessent is vacuuming it all up now. He reported yesterday that the total seized is now up to $500 million
Yesterday, Secretary Bessent told Fox Business that the Treasury Department is ramping up “Operation Economic Fury” and is now “sprinting for the finish line.”
Specifically, the US Treasury has found and frozen secret bank accounts owned by IRGC officials, preserving the money “for the Iranian people.” Hilariously, Bessent also announced we are now seizing IRGC officers’ “villas in the South of France and all over the world,” including, unsurprisingly, London. (Because nothing screams ‘Death to the Great Satan!’ quite like yelling it from the balcony of your six-bedroom chateau in Cannes while sipping mimosas and checking your crypto wallet.)
In his bland, straightforward way, Bessent said, “We will track them down,” sounding more like he was announcing a scheduled expansion of Treasury restroom facilities instead of burning up IRGC officials’ bugout bags amidst a war.
This is the key. We’ve learned that the Iranian Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) is a parasitic mega-corporation that has co-opted the elected government of Iran, and uses the apparatus of state to suck blood and treasure out of the Iranian people, all to enrich a secretive class of demented hypocrites who cosplay as religious maniacs but are really violent mobsters with missiles and an army.
You couldn’t possibly imagine a less democratic system of government. It’s not a theocracy. It’s a heavily armed kleptocracy.
Not that any of that troubles our corporate media types. We shouldn’t judge other cultures. But let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose we discovered that all our top Pentagon officials had secret overseas bank accounts stuffed with millions, villas in the South of France, and so on. How would the U.S. media report that? But when it comes to Iran— crickets.
So Operation Economic Fury may not simply be a curious sideshow to the greater war. That, combined with the Trump Blockade, might be the main action. The United States Military has defanged the IRGC’s military capabilities. For proof, just ask yourself— when was the last time Iran lobbed a missile at anyone?
Its oil wells are full and will soon begin losing permanent capacity. Its ports are closed to any kind of foreign trade, especially oil sales. It’s under a naval blockade. Now comes the real leverage— taking the IRGC mobsters’ toys and Swiss bank accounts away. It’s what you might call a “rubber meets road” moment. The IRGC’s ‘mullahs’ constantly brag about how they’ll happily become martyrs if needed.
But … are the anonymous leaders of Iran’s private army willing to become paupers for the cause? That’s the real question.
BUT OF COURSE…TRUMP IS TRAPPED…HE BIT OFF MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW…HE DIDN’T HAVE A PLAN
NOW — DO THE SAME to the US Democrat party (yes – Republicans too) and claw back all the graft that has been personally hoarded over years of corruption!!!
ALSO — this should send chills down the spine of every Bitcoin holder in the world — US Treasury has NOW proven that it can shut down your CRYPTO Wallet at their discretion — there is no more security thinking that your wallet belongs to you and you alone — it can be reached, touched and confiscated by US Treasury. Now that they have proven it can be done, other nation treasuries will surely follow. Once marketed as a store of value away from prying eyes has been proven to be a false narrative!
LASTLY — Will the US keep all the crypto vacuumed up as a warning – similar to all the gold removed from multiple central banks of overthrown ME country rulers and oil proceeds from conquered nations that are still pumping (ie: ALL Venezuela oil revenue is going into an account controlled by DJT).
KLEPTOCRACY??? You mean like most governments of the world? In Canada, the WEF/Liberals have stolen $ billions! In Ontario, the WEF/Conservatives have done the same! Zelenskyy has villas all over the place! Corruption is EVERYWHERE!
The corruption was always in the background but it has become so much more rampant and obvious since developed nations collectively decided that the fiat currency systems were untenable and they all simultaneously opened the floodgates wide to new artificial money creation. It is as they were dooming the developed world to the sewer but if they all acted simultaneously the populace would not figure out that they were being robbed blind. (the frog sitting in pot of water analogy)
Those in command realized that the “ship was sinking” and decided to get some for themselves and overtly began to hoard all that they could for personal wealth creation while enabling the masses to be crushed by massive inflation, corruption, graft, greed and lawlessness.
Basically the same group that decided at the UN conferences of 1992/94 to implement mass euthanasia of the world populations under multiple guises including (but not limited to) climate hysterics.
The last three (or more) decades have been bullshit piled upon bullshit upon rotting piles of bullshit for those NOT on the inside of these glutunous “pigs at the trough” behaviours of well positioned politicians, elites, corporations and crooks.
It’s no wonder that ethics and morality have become rare traits in todays world! They are to be protected and encouraged at every opportunity!