U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Basset Discusses Change in Iranian Regime
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Basset stated that the U.S. has not conducted a regime change but has altered the Iranian regime.
Through military strikes and economic pressure, the U.S. has weakened Iran's supreme leadership and nuclear capabilities, forcing Iran into ceasefire negotiations.
In market mechanisms, energy traders and allies are accelerating the sale of Iranian-related assets, shifting to alternative oil sources; event-driven funds are flowing out of Iranian-related entities, benefiting U.S. energy companies and sanction enforcers, while the Iranian regime and buyers reliant on its oil are under pressure.
Source: Public Information
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Scott Basset, as a former hedge fund manager, supported the maximum pressure strategy on Iran around Trump's first term, leading the "Economic Fury" financial campaign between 2025-2026 to cut off Iran's oil revenue through secondary sanctions. Throughout his career, he has often bet on energy price fluctuations caused by geopolitical events.
On the capital front, the U.S. mobilizes Treasury OFAC and allied resources to freeze Iran's shadow banking network and combat its crypto funds, redirecting oil dollars that would have gone to the Iranian regime and its proxies towards U.S. energy exports and allied purchases, achieving resource redistribution through deterrent sanctions.
Similar to the "economic warfare + military deterrence" combination during the Reagan era against the Soviet Union, and the initial maximum pressure from 2018-2020, the U.S. is transitioning from direct military action to long-term financial control in this case, attempting to reshape the Middle Eastern energy landscape without complete occupation.
Essentially, this involves restructuring the supply chain, severing Iran's node positions in the global oil and financial chains through precise strikes and sustained sanctions, depriving it of pricing power and financing ability, and forcing regional resources to concentrate on U.S.-led supply chains.
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Changing the core while keeping the banner unchanged, true control is never in name but in structure.
Military opens the door, finance locks the window, power transfer always follows dual tracks.
A regime that appears unchanged often quietly collapses in the flow of capital and resources.