Scott Bessent said the US was expanding secondary sanctions on Iran but offered no deadline for Tehran’s trading partners to comply before Washington imposed measures he said could “blow up” the world’s financial system.
斯科特•贝森特(Scott Bessent)表示，美国正在扩大针对伊朗的二级制裁，但他并没有说明，德黑兰的贸易伙伴必须在什么期限前遵守要求，否则华盛顿方面就要推出他所称的可能“摧毁”全球金融体系的措施。
The US Treasury secretary’s announcement on Monday included warnings that countries would be given “a defined timeline” to end trade with Iran and that entities helping Tehran launder money or evade sanctions could be “cut off from the US financial system”.
美国财长在周一讲话中发出了警告，有关各国将收到与伊朗结束贸易的“明确期限”，帮助德黑兰洗钱或规避制裁的实体可能“被踢出美国金融体系”。
But the announcement stopped short of sweeping immediate action against countries including China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iraq, the republic’s largest trading partners before the Iran war.
但这番讲话中并没有宣布要对中国、阿联酋、土耳其和伊拉克等国——伊朗战争爆发前该共和国最大的几个贸易伙伴——立即采取全面行动。