Following the announcement of a US raid that seemed imminent, international tensions surrounding Iran have eased as much as possible.
"We'll be watching and verifying the situation," Donald Trump responded to reporters who asked him whether he still intended to halt the repression in Iran—thousands of people have died as a result of the regime's response to the protests— after being informed that Tehran had halted the killings of protesters and the executions of those arrested. "I hope that's true," the president added.
The announcement came late Wednesday evening from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "There will be no hangings today or tomorrow," he assured Fox News.
After the possibility of an American intervention was eased, Iranian airspace, which had been closed for at least five hours, was also reopened.
Meanwhile, the US is providing analysis of signs of Tehran's regime's resilience: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared that Washington is monitoring what he described as a wave of capital flight by Iran's ruling elite.
"As Treasury enforcing sanctions, we can see that we're now seeing the 'rats jumping ship' because we're seeing millions, tens of millions of dollars being transferred out of the country, secretly siphoned off by the Iranian leadership," Bessent said in an interview with Newsmax. "So they're jumping ship, and we're seeing them arrive in banks and financial institutions around the world," the Treasury Secretary added. "What we do at Treasury is follow the flow of money, both through the banking system and through digital assets. We'll track these assets, and they won't be able to hold them."
(Unioneonline)