Benson: The United States has made significant progress in imposing an economic blockade on Iran According to Golden Finance, on October 23rd, US Treasury Secretary Besson announced that the US Treasury Department had launched an "economic isolation operation" aimed at further tightening the economic blockade on Iran and cutting off all sources of income that could provide funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its brutal regime. Less than two months later, we have dealt a heavy blow to various links of Iran's oil revenue lifeline. Its shadow oil tanker fleet has been severely weakened, with major oil export terminals empty and offshore oil reserves depleted. At the same time, ordinary Iranian citizens are still suffering from an increasingly severe economic crisis, as the Iranian regime is squandering resources on overseas violence and terrorism activities rather than improving the lives of domestic citizens. With President Trump taking action that his predecessor had long delayed, the United States is no longer just responding to the Iranian threat, but is aiming to completely eliminate it.