— U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT ON #IRAN Everyone wants this to end. It has been 47 years with this evil regime , and the world is tired of it. The Persian people are a great people . Above them stands this repressive regime. Either this regime will change from within, or the people will rise up , or we will see what happens. We will economically strangle them . They are in what I call the "jaws of economic death.