May 29 — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that any removal of the U.S. financial and economic blockade on Iran would be slow.
“We’ll see,” Bessent said. “It will be — anything that’s taken off is taken off slowly.”
Bessent also said the United States had seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the economic component of President Donald Trump’s war on the Islamic Republic.
Reporting by Costas Pitas, Katharine Jackson and Jacob Bogage; editing by Michelle Nichols and Kayhan Life Staff
