Team Trump moves to asphyxiate the Iranian menace – hooray!

Team Trump fired a powerful shot across Tehran’s bow Monday as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rolled out “Operation Economic Outcast.” The ultimate goal: complete “economic asphyxiation of the regime,” per Bessent — i.e., blocking “every potential source of revenue that funds the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and the evil Iranian regime” until it cries uncle. Hear, hear. For now, President Donald Trump has begun pressing world leaders to halt all economic interactions with Iran, and threatening to lock them out of the “US dollar system” if they refuse. “Those who tether themselves to Tehran should expect to share in the…