Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, said on Tuesday, concurrently with the meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 countries in Asheville: “Iranians should know that they can become a normal country again. The people of Iran, the people of Persia, are great people, and they have the opportunity to return to the international system.”

He added: “They are being repressed, and a small group cannot remain in power forever.”

Bessent said: “We are burying the poisonous snake of Iran’s head. The snake still doesn’t know it is dead, but when the sun sets, it will no longer move.”

Bessent addressed the officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: “We are tracking the assets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and we are saying this on global television so that you know. We know where your accounts are at trust companies in the British Virgin Islands, and we also know your $100 million houses around the world.”

The U.S. Treasury Secretary said: “We will go after the assets of the government that have been stolen from the people of Iran. These assets can be returned to the people of Iran or be put at the disposal of the victims of terrorism.”

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