“Economic D-Day”: Trump Warns Countries Supporting Iran of Severe Penalties

President Donald Trump listens as Gemini co-founder and president Cameron Winklevoss, left, and Gemini co-founder and CEO Tyler Winklevoss, proper, watch, throughout a gathering with expertise leaders within the Roosevelt Room of the White Home, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (native time) introduced an “Financial D-Day” towards Iran, warning of what he known as probably the most extreme financial operation ever imposed on a rustic.“Nobody has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a higher alternative to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they’ve didn’t take it,” Trump stated in a put up on Fact Social. He warned that Iran would now face “financial warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”Trump additionally warned international locations towards offering Iran with “any kind of lifeline,” threatening them with “super financial penalties.”“Oil smuggling, swap traces, money transfers, alternate homes, ship registries, entrance firms — All of it must cease NOW. You recognize who you’re,” he wrote, calling it an “ECONOMIC D-DAY” and urging US allies to affix Washington in isolating and defeating what he described because the Iranian risk.Describing the Iranian as “maniacs,” he additional said that these “historic measures” would “cripple” Tehran and and its “means to venture terror worldwide.”