Promethean Action PAC puts together another video drawing attention to the connection between pressure on both Hezbollah (Lebanon) and Hamas (Gaza) that is forcing the terrorist networks within both conflict zones to suddenly discuss disarming and a pathway to peace.
Kokinda notes Secretary Bessent’s sanctions and money intercepts against all of the various Iranian financial systems are creating problems for the networks they support. That is leading to unexpected pressure on the terror networks.
“From Camp David, President Trump framed a reported Hamas disarmament agreement as a breakthrough enabled by pressure on Iran, arguing the regional strategic terrain has shifted. The episode highlights two developments presented as unprecedented: Hamas agreeing to disarm and Israel and Lebanon resuming talks after three decades, both attributed to cutting off Iranian funding for proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Kokinda claims the decisive “weapon” was Treasury action under Secretary Scott Bessent—sanctions, OFAC tools, anti–money laundering measures—described as “economic fury,” including designating over 1,000 Iranian-linked individuals, ships, and companies and disrupting routes through shipping, insurance, and offshore finance. The script also points to the February 19, 2026 launch of the multinational “Board of Peace,” tasked with rebuilding Gaza, as a preplanned institutional blueprint that helped secure the Hamas agreement.”
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Great job by Secretary Bessent!! $$$$
Reminds me of the story of the RICO Act, passed in 1970. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor who was working temporarily for the late Sen. John McClellan of Arkansas, noticed that while the Justice Department was successful in prosecuting many organized crime figures, sending them to prison only opened up space for younger, more ruthless mob figures to take their place.
Blakey thus began drafting a law aimed at getting at the root of the problem: the business of organized crime. The result was the RICO Act, which was passed with relatively little fanfare in 1970 and which lay largely unused until Rudy Giuliani discovered it in the early 1980’s and began using it aggressively against the New York mob as well as Wall Street figures and others.
Bessent is doing something similar on the international stage. He knows the way to ultimately beat the beardies in Tehran is to strangle them financially. No regime, no matter how brutal and amoral, can operate without money.