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Bessent says Iran is in shock at the state of their economy.

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Bessent says Iran is in shock at the state of their economy.

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We think that they are lashing out

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kinetically because they are losing

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economically. If you look back what the

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Iranian political leadership has said

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over the past 10 days, uh they're

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they're in shock at the state of their

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economy. Could you imagine a country in

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the world with the third largest amount

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of uh energy resources has to import

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gasoline since they now have three,

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four-hour gas lines that go through the

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night. You have the blockade and we are

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going to continue exerting pressure. And

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the economy doesn't have to collapse. I

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think it could be within weeks or

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months.

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The speaker argues that Iran's recent kinetic actions are a direct consequence of its failing economy, exacerbated by energy resource mismanagement and ongoing international pressure, which could lead to an economic collapse in the near future.

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