US Treasury Secretary Bessent says his advice regarding Iran and Russia is to “stay away from them,” adding that no one should support the regimes, via a Fox News Interview

The substance worth noting is the target set: naming airlines, maritime shipping and digital-asset entities is the secondary-sanctions playbook applied to the evasion chain rather than to producers directly, and in past enforcement waves it has been freight, insurance and shadow-fleet capacity, rather than headline export volumes, that repriced first. The transmission channel on crude is the discount at which sanctioned barrels clear and the cost of moving them, not an immediate supply loss; enforcement that sticks tends to widen that discount and tighten effective supply into Asia at the margin. The active-communication line signals private pressure on third-country intermediaries, which is where these campaigns have historically succeeded or failed. The Canada aside is trade-posture noise rather than sanctions content, but it fits the pattern of linking energy and trade leverage in the same messaging. The follow-ons that matter are designations, vessel-level actions, and any move against the financial rails rather than further interview rhetoric.