{"id":7254,"date":"2026-09-07T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:47:13","slug":"ghalibaf-mocks-bessents-liftoff-claims-highlights-us-economic-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/ghalibaf-mocks-bessents-liftoff-claims-highlights-us-economic-pressures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalibaf Mocks Bessent\u2019s \u2018Liftoff\u2019 Claims, Highlights US Economic Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent\u2019s remarks about the US economy and oil prices, highlighting mounting economic and financial pressures facing Washington.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\"\"In a post on X, Ghalibaf used a picture of \u201cWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner\u201d animated cartoon to challenge Bessent\u2019s assertion that the US economy is entering a \u201cliftoff phase,\u201d pointing to developments involving US fuel prices, Treasury holdings, military recruitment and Federal Reserve policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWheels up. Warm-ups before liftoff:<\/p>\n

Diesel ATH: Short it<\/p>\n

Your biggest creditor dumping: Good luck with Yentervention++<\/p>\n

NOR cutting $80B: Rename Norway to Americaway<\/p>\n

Low recruitment: Debt-to-Service w\/ DO[Israel’s]W, per your puppeteers<\/p>\n

Oh. Fed’s dot plot flashing red \ud83d\ude01,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Ghalibaf\u2019s post was a response to Bessent\u2019s comments in an interview with Lara Trump in which the US Treasury secretary claimed that oil prices could fall to $40-$50 per barrel after the Iran conflict, while declaring that the US economy was in the \u201cliftoff phase.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his response, Ghalibaf referred to several economic developments. He pointed to US diesel prices reaching a record high, Japan\u2019s position as the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities and recent reductions in Japanese overseas debt holdings. US Treasury data shows Japan remained the largest foreign holder of Treasuries in June, with holdings of about $1.12 trillion.<\/p>\n

Ghalibaf also highlighted Norway\u2019s proposed reduction of nearly $80 billion in US Treasury holdings. Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, has proposed cutting the fund\u2019s government-bond allocation, a move that could reduce its US Treasury holdings by nearly $80 billion.<\/p>\n

He further referred to declining US military recruitment and tensions between Federal Reserve policy signals and the US Treasury\u2019s economic outlook, ending his post with a sarcastic reference to the Fed\u2019s \u201cred\u201d warning signals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent\u2019s remarks about the US economy and oil prices, highlighting mounting economic and financial pressures facing Washington. Tehran-IranView24 In a post on X, Ghalibaf used a picture of \u201cWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner\u201d animated cartoon to challenge Bessent\u2019s assertion that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","category-council","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}