U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent, in an interview today (Beijing time May 30), reiterated his comments on Iran: "We have frozen approximately $1 billion worth of Iranian cryptocurrency—directly seizing their digital wallets. Some of them might be typing in information right now, unaware that their wallets have been frozen. These funds were stolen from the Iranian people."
[Clever] A few remarks: Is there really someone celebrating theft? Bessent boldly boasts about the U.S. directly "seizing" Iranian cryptocurrency wallets worth $1 billion, then brazenly flips the script by claiming it's reclaiming stolen assets "on behalf of the Iranian people." Let’s remind Bessent not to forget what U.S. forces have long done in Syria—armored vehicles escorting convoys of hundreds of trucks, openly looting crude oil from Deir ez-Zor’s oil fields and wheat from Al-Hasakah province, with even UN reports documenting this resource plunder. From stealing bread and diesel from Syrians to freezing Iranian people’s crypto wallets today—this is always the same playbook of hegemonic unilateral judgment. I say you’re dirty, you’re dirty; I say confiscation is justice. Stealing a poor nation’s life-saving food supplies and then erecting a self-righteous monument to claim moral high ground—this is a face so shameless even medieval pirates would be embarrassed to call the U.S. a peer.
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