U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent briefed Mehmet Şimşek, the Turkish minister of Treasury and Finance, on the Trump administration’s reimposed “maximum pressure” sanctions against Iran, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday.
Bessent specifically shared that the administration’s resumption of maximum pressure on Iran was to end its “nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile programs and stop its support of terrorist groups,” a department readout stated.
The two spoke on sanctions, which the United States has placed on numerous people, vessels and entities connected to the Iranian regime, “as well as other economic and national security issues of mutual concern.”
Bessent and Şimşek also discussed trends within the Turkish economy.
