It's Friday, January 16th, 2026. It's a Friday five-pack, including radio silence almost on Iran all the sudden.

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radio silence on the topic of Iran, the last 24, 36 hours or so. Of course, we had the story

yesterday about President Trump kind of doing an about face on the issue of Iran saying,

hey, we got confirmation. They're not going to do any hangings. And so for now, we're going to

stand pat. It sounds like the killing has stopped. I'm not sure if that's really the case.

One person who has not been silent, though, is Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who told

Newsmax a couple of days ago, he's seeing, based on his

perch at the Treasury, he's seeing dollars and assets absolutely flee Iran. Their rats are trying

to leave the ship. He came out with another message yesterday slapping sanctions on Iran of the

financial variety. My message today is to the Iranian leadership on behalf of the people of Iran who cannot

speak for themselves.

Last March, we predicted that President Trump's maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian

regime would accelerate an economic collapse.

Since then, our sanctions efforts have been effective

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