๐ฎ๐ท Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with a satirical equation suggesting Washington, not Tehran, is running out of time.
The post responded to Bessent's claim that Iran could have "nothing left to trade" within two weeks, referring to Iranโs depleting oil on water.
Ghalibaf lays out what he called the "Trajectory of Stress on the House," which argues that the burden on U.S. finances is rising as a wall of maturing debt and new borrowing meets higher, fast-moving bond yields.
Simultaneously, he says, the capacity to absorb that debt is shrinking, with the Federal Reserve boxed in and fewer foreign buyers and dealers to take it on.
Iran's levers, he wrote, are energy, bonds and pressure on the Fed, and the stress only grows from now through November midterm elections and into 2027.
Ghalibaf paired the post with a meme depicting Bessent as Wile E. Coyote hypnotized by a pocket watch before walking off a cliff.