Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent likened Iran to a snake with its head cut off after the U.S. has decimated its leadership and military forces while strangling it with blockades and sanctions: “They don’t know they’re dead yet, but they are.”
Bessent on Iran: We’ve Cut Off the Head, “The Snake’s Dead But It Doesn’t Know Its Dead”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent likened Iran to a snake with its head cut off after the U.S. has decimated its leadership and military forces while strangling it with blockades and sanctions: “They don’t know they’re dead yet, but they are.”
