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'Collapse from within': Bessent says US seeing defections in Iran at all levels

Mar 19, 2026, 15:34 GMT+0Updated: 17:12 GMT+0

"We are seeing defections [in Iran] at all levels as they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime," US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent told reporters.

"It doesn't get reported here in the US very well, but we are trouncing them from the air, and the regime will probably collapse within itself."

"At treasury, we've seen where they've wired their money out of the country. We're coming for that. We're going to get it back to the Iranian people," Bessent said.

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