Trump’s Economic D-Day Puts America First, Crushes Iranian Jihadists

Do Republican voters want this actual America-first pressure continued?

Joseph Ford Cotto | September 1, 2026

The Donald J. Trump administration has launched its most aggressive economic assault yet against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent labeled it “economic D-Day.” Operation Economic Outcast (OEO) is designed to choke off every remaining financial channel that buoys the ayatollahs and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). After 47 years of Iranian Islamist aggression, the United States has stopped managing the threat and started ending it. This turn is entirely due to the leadership of Trump.

OEO maps the exact networks Tehran uses to smuggle oil, launder money, buy missile components, and launch cyberattacks.

In one day, nearly 60 companies, individuals, and vessels across the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Switzerland, and Europe were targeted. Five key sectors — digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping — now face sharply expanded secondary-sanctions risk. Any foreign firm still operating in those sectors can be cut off from the American financial system.

Licenses that once permitted limited remittances and academic exchanges were frozen. New guidance warned shipping companies against bowing to Iranian demands in the Strait of Hormuz.

Jihadist fanatics, who enjoy their sadistic stranglehold over the Iranian people, have treated “Death to America” as state policy since the 1979 Islamist revolution. They have armed proxies that murdered Americans, pursued nuclear weapons, and used oil money to bankroll the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Earlier White House administrations issued statements and occasional sanctions. The Trump team has chosen total isolation for the savages in Tehran.

Control over the Strait of Hormuz proves the shift.

Iranian mines have been swept from the international lanes. Nearly 1,500 commercial vessels have transited under U.S. protection, carrying 750 million barrels of crude oil to world markets. Iran........

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