Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the Iranian regime:

"Iran reminds me of when I was a kid in South Carolina. We ended up with poison snakes in our yard. You'd cut the head off, but the tail kept wiggling. You have to bury the head of the snake."

"We are burying the head of the Iranian snake. The snake doesn't know it's dead yet, but it will stop wiggling when the sun goes down."

"The Iranian regime, they are demised. And they will figure it out."