‘Rats Fleeing the Ship’: Iran’s Ruling Elites ‘Frantically Wiring’ Millions Abroad, Bessent Says, as New Sanctions Hit

Who knows? Can we expect those bots fighting ICE to leave them alone now and begin pro-Iranian riots. They can go back to the old "genocide" routine. One is forced to ask, what would a Democrat President do? TD

Breitbart

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest.

Scott Bessent video:   "The United States stands firmly behind the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice." . . .  More...

James Zumwalt: To Iran’s Mullahs: A Trump Promise Made is a Promise Kept  

"While unverified, there are reports Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders have a plane ready to fly them to Russia should the situation further deteriorate." . . . More...

‘I saw 12 people collapsed in a pool of blood’: Eyewitness describes Iran’s deadly crackdown 1/16/2026 "A Tehran resident who took part in the protests that have roiled Iran before fleeing the country has described a deadly crackdown – with security forces firing indiscriminately at protesters with machine guns and assault rifles – in an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24. "   

He also said he witnessed demonstrators call for the return of the shah, Iran’s pre-revolution monarch, and spoke of their hopes that US President Donald Trump would make good on his promise to come to the “rescue” of protesting Iranians.