# US economic D-Day sanctions: 'Repeated attacks of bombing across Iran failed to change the calculus'

https://mins.news/en/item/31676

- France 24, 2026-08-25 13:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/us-economic-d-day-sanctions-repeated-attacks-of-bombing-across-iran-failed-to-change-the-calculus

> Atlantic Council Deputy Director and Resident Fellow Imran Bayoumi says the Trump administration is using sanctions to seek economic leverage over Iran after military force failed to produce results. The strategy depends on whether Washington can bring China, Iran’s biggest oil customer, into compliance, while Tehran has decades of sanctions experience and is again threatening regional escalation.

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