Iran IRGC Says US ‘Iron Gate’ Task Force Cannot Pressure Iran

The IRGC's dismissal is itself the signal: Tehran is pre-emptively framing a US economic-pressure initiative as rhetorical rather than material, which sets expectations for how it will respond if the task force actually takes shape. The audience is less Washington than Iran's own markets and public, where confidence in economic resilience is the contested ground. Whether the task force moves beyond messaging into concrete enforcement is the open question, and the credibility gap between the two sides' characterizations is what to watch.