US Ambassador to UN Mike Waltz says Iran fears economic sanctions over military attacks

“I say this jokingly but seriously as well, the Iranians are more afraid of Secretary Bessent than they are of Secretary Hegseth right now,” Waltz said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday evening.
“When they’re coming to the table with our negotiators, they are talking about cash, cash, cash. Because they’ll absorb the bombings."

"They don’t care about their military, they don’t care about their soldiers, or even the Iranian people after they massacred 40,000 of them.”

“This is a corrupt elite religious fanatic regime that has devastated that country for many, many decades. They are asking for access to cash, access to their assets that we have frozen, that’s the squeeze. That coupled with the blockade, that’s what’s going to eventually get the Iranians to move.”