Mike Waltz Reveals Why Iran's Regime Is in Even Deeper Trouble

The U.S. has been pounding Iran again for the past two weeks.

While the U.S. took a pause Saturday and talks are continuing with the regime, the regime is obviously up a creek without a paddle. While their facilities are getting hit and taken out, U.S. action is also hitting them hard in the wallet.

President Donald Trump announced that they were going to use any of the Iranian regime money they could lay their hands on to pay off any damage that Iran was causing, such as with shipping. And they've been going after Iran's money big time, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has explained, even tracking down Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's "money man," and freezing regime-related accounts. Bessent said they were preserving that money for "the American people." Bessent explained how they've been tracking accounts all over the world, and now they've also frozen a crypto wallet containing about $130 million linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Bessent Drops the Financial Hammer on Iran, With a Personal Message to the Ayatollah

The damage militarily and financially is hitting hard, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz explained on "Fox News Sunday," noting that the IRGC controlled "40 to 50 percent of the Iranian economy." He also revealed another big problem the regime was facing.

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"What you have seen in the last 13 days are strikes particularly focused on Iran's terrorist activities; attacking civilian shipping," Waltz said.

He termed these kinds of responses from Iran "acts of desperation," given their position.

"The Iranian regime is isolated, economically devastated, militarily devastated," he said. "And we're starting to see the Iranian government even not be able to pay its own workers, and even its own military."

If anything will be able to precipitate even more discord for the regime, that's it. An unpaid military is not going to be full of happy campers. All of this is likely to make the Iranian people, who were already unhappy, even more up in arms (maybe literally) with the government's actions.

Keep dropping all the hammers you can, militarily and economically, maybe particularly on the leaders who are not fully getting the message. That's a message that either they will end up understanding — or ultimately it will not end well for them.

Then, too, President Donald Trump is planning on meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week. If Israel gets back into the action, that could also drop another hammer on the Iranian regime, and they have to consider that might be in the offing as well.

If the Iranian regime is looking around at its position, it can't be feeling good at this point.

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.

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