Scott Bessent's $1 Billion Crypto Seizure Claim Met With Shakespeare's 'Dwarfish Thief' Dig By Iran
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei used a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” on Monday to ridicule Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claim about seizing $1 billion worth of Iran’s cryptocurrencies. Baqaei posted a video of Bessent from the Reagan National Economic Forum last month, where the Treasury Secretary said the U.S. had seized “about a billion dollars” in Iran’s digital assets.