FILE PHOTO: Scott Bessent, May 28, 2026. Abe McNatt / The White House / Public Domain (cropped).
NEW YORK – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that threats against his life from Iran would not intimidate him, confirming that he had moved from his home to a military base on Secret Service instructions.
Speaking in an interview Friday, Bessent accused Iran’s leadership of initiating death threats against him and said he and other members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet would not be intimidated.
Bessent argued that the threats showed the administration’s Operation Economic Outcast pressure campaign was working.
He described Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a dangerous, cornered animal and said he was following Secret Service instructions by relocating.
Iran has denied plotting attacks against officials and people on U.S. soil. Bessent’s comments followed earlier reports of his relocation; Friday’s interview provided his own public account of the threats and move.
JBizNews Desk | New York
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