Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Fox News: “The Iranian regime does not care about its own people. What matters to this regime is money, so it can maintain its control.”

He, referring to Donald Trump, the U.S. president, taking on the Islamic Republic, said: “Now the world must play its part: enforce sanctions, deal with banks and shell companies that help the survival of this regime, and cut off its vital economic financing channels.”