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US-Iran conflict: Examining Iran’s resistance

From Tuổi Trẻ · () Vietnamese

Translated from Vietnamese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Iran has continued resisting US pressure and maintaining its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz despite Washington’s expectations that Tehran would collapse.
  • The United States has threatened additional secondary sanctions and carried out a strike on two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island.
  • A Valdai Club report says decades of sanctions, particularly measures imposed after 2010, have deeply affected Iran’s oil revenue, budget deficit, inflation and foreign-exchange transactions.

More than six months after Israel and the United States launched “Operation Rage” airstrikes on Iran in February 2026, Tehran has not collapsed as Washington and President Donald Trump had predicted. Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz, while pressure from sanctions and military strikes has failed to produce what experts describe as a decisive turning point.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Reuters on August 31 that Washington would introduce new secondary sanctions against Iran each week. The next step, he said, could be cutting Iran’s access to the dollar. The United States has imposed sanctions on Tehran since 1979, but the latest measures also target institutions accused of maintaining ties with Iran.

On August 28, Washington restricted branches of Egypt’s Banque Misr in the United Arab Emirates over alleged cooperation with Tehran. Bessent warned that the bank could be removed entirely from the dollar-based financial system if it did not sever its relationship with Iran.

Military pressure has accompanied the financial campaign. On August 30, US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first US attack on Iran in a month. Experts cited in the article did not consider the operation a strategic breakthrough. Iranian Brigadier General Reza Talaei-Nik said on Press TV on August 27 that the opposing side had “misjudged the Iranian people’s ability to sustain a long war.”

A report published in August 2026 by Russia’s Valdai Club examines how Iran’s economy has adapted to US sanctions. It says the political and economic structure created after the 1979 revolution shaped an economic model based on Islamic principles. According to the report, sanctions imposed by Washington and its allies after 2010 caused especially serious damage, reducing oil revenue, increasing budget deficits and inflation, and raising the cost of foreign-exchange transactions.

misjudged the Iranian people’s ability to sustain a long war.

· Reza Talaei-NikThe Iranian brigadier general used the phrase to describe what he presented as the United States’ mistaken assessment of Iran’s endurance.
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Originally published by Tuổi Trẻ in Vietnamese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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