Bessent Warns Iran’s Enablers: ‘We Will Find You and Sanction You’

The explicit extension of sanctions risk to professional-service firms marks a notable broadening of enforcement logic beyond the physical oil trade, potentially raising compliance exposure for intermediaries who previously sat outside the direct line of fire. The framing of a binary choice is itself a pressure tactic aimed at counterparties rather than Tehran, and the open question is whether that rhetorical escalation is followed by designations that reach law firms and advisers, which would test how far secondary-risk doctrine is prepared to travel.