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During the debate, Rogers blasted El-Sayed for his lack of clarity on terrorism and laced into him for not releasing a statement marking the three-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 Israelis. El-Sayed had ducked questions earlier in the day about why he didn’t release a statement on the grim anniversary.

“This is why you should get absolutely angry,” Rogers said. “He could not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain, the terrorism, the rape, the murders, cutting off of women’s breasts, putting children in ovens and killing them in front of their families.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is moving beyond financial sanctions to impose what he calls an "absolute isolation campaign" against Iran, including naval blockades, restrictions on air travel, efforts to close land routes, and plans to seize about $1 billion in cryptocurrency.

In an interview with Greta Van Susteren at Newsmax's NPolicy Summit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Bessent said the administration's strategy is designed to completely quarantine Iran's ruling regime, cutting off its access to international markets, transportation, and financial resources.

"We did have a maximum pressure campaign. Now we have an absolute isolation campaign and it's working," Bessent told Van Susteren.

Bessent said the administration's efforts are already creating panic within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Citing a recent New York Times report, Bessent said the IRGC "is now panicking amongst themselves."

"And that's the key, because what we have done has never been seen before," he said.

Bessent described an unprecedented effort to shut down Iranian oil exports through military action and maritime blockades.

"We have, we had military. Now we have the blockades, so nothing is going in, coming out or going in," Bessent said.

He predicted the restrictions would bring Iranian oil exports to a complete halt.

"For the first time ever since they started pumping oil, the history of Iran, they will have no oil on the water for sale," he said.

But Bessent emphasized that the campaign extends far beyond oil exports and traditional economic sanctions.

Bessent said the United Arab Emirates and Oman are cooperating with Washington and that the administration is working with Pakistan and Turkey to shut down overland routes into and out of Iran.

"UAE has been a good partner. Oman has been a good partner. We're working with Pakistan and Turkey to cut off all the land routes," Bessent said.

The Treasury secretary also described restrictions on international air travel intended to prevent Iranian officials and regime-connected elites from escaping the country's growing isolation.

"We have quarantined them, uh, with airline flights," Bessent said.

He mocked the foreign travel habits of Iranian officials, saying members of the IRGC could no longer visit "their plastic surgeon in London, their girlfriend in Paris, and their money in Geneva."

"If they love the Islamic Republic of Iran, they are stuck there so they can enjoy it," he said.

Bessent suggested that trapping regime officials inside Iran could exert psychological pressure on the country's leadership.

The administration is also targeting financial assets held outside the traditional banking system.

"We're probably gonna seize a billion dollars of crypto this week," Bessent revealed.

"And, you know, we know where it is and we are isolating them," he added.

The comments came as Van Susteren questioned whether U.S. sanctions were successfully squeezing Iran's economy.

Bessent's response made clear that the administration views the campaign as much more than a financial crackdown.

The administration's stated objective is to isolate Iran economically and geographically while increasing pressure on the ruling regime and the IRGC.

"We have isolated them economically," Bessent said, insisting that the expanded campaign is already producing results.

Omid Ghanouni, from Arjanak village in Khansar county, died during judicial questioning at the Khansar courthouse on Tuesday, October 6, less than 24 hours after his arrest, according to the source.

He was detained on Monday evening, following a verbal dispute with a Basij member. Basij forces severely beat him with rifle butts before handing him over to police, the source said.

Ghanouni spent the night at Vist police station and was taken to the courthouse the following morning.

Father’s plea for hospital treatment rejected

During questioning, Ghanouni was suffering from severe abdominal pain and was visibly unwell, according to the source.

His father, who was at the courthouse, asked judicial officials to allow his son to be taken to hospital. He even offered to remain in custody in his son’s place so the teenager could receive treatment.

The judge rejected the request and questioning continued, the source said. Ghanouni then collapsed from his chair and died at the courthouse. His body was subsequently taken to Khansar’s Fatemiyeh Hospital.

Medical staff at the hospital identified internal bleeding as the cause of death, according to the source, who also described extensive bruising and injuries on the teenager’s body and face.

The source said there had been obstruction in the process of referring his body for forensic examination.

In the latest in a series of escalating attacks within the Sistan-Baluchestan province, Deputy Police Commander Nosrat Eftekhari was assassinated by a roadside bomb. This implies insurgents in the area are both supplied enough to have consistent access to working explosives (roadsides mines and RPGs as previously reported), have a functioning intelligence network capable of tracking high ranking personnel, and forces capable of putting that information to good use to pull something like this off. This is following the assassination of a Police Major in the neighboring region of Kerman just yesterday.

I wonder if any can attempt an answer to the question. How does/could the IRGC actually collapse?

Their inteference of the straight has waned though not entirely diminshed. The damage many predicted would occur to the world economy has been significantly less then predictions stated.

Irans economy however really does seem to be collapsing and their military capability, though still clearly dangerous, is massively reduced.

Though despite this I struggle to see how they collapse, at least into the dream scenario of say, some pro west secular governmemt or a peoples democracy forming.

I see how the IRGC factions might split. But that doesn't really solve the issue. Just creates a temporary civil war. From what I understand they are not so divided and are investing even more heavily in suppresing civilian dissent.

I guess I am asking whar realistic steps couls be taken and events occur that could lead to the israelis stated desire if a regime overthrough and a pahvlavist "New Iran" occuring?

The same Islamic regime who butchers Iranians and the same useful idiots in the West who today screech and mock-faint at current events.

Nothing has changed, except they hope that you'll forget or won't think for yourself.

Unlike the rootless, Iranians do not forget.

We know who we are and we know who they are as well.

Payande Iran

Javid Shah

The U.S. State Department noted that earlier this year, the IRGC launched a recruitment campaign establishing a minimum participation age of 12 for certain security activities.

The 2026 report emphasized that beyond internal recruitment, the IRGC provides support to non-state armed groups abroad that forcibly recruit and deploy child soldiers.

Furthermore, the report concluded that Iran lacks effective mechanisms to identify and protect trafficking victims and has reported no concrete steps to halt child recruitment by the IRGC or Basij.

The State Department also highlighted the exploitation of children in forced begging, forced labor, and sex trafficking, noting that undocumented migrant children, particularly Afghans, face heightened vulnerability.

Despite ratifying the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in August 2025, Iran has yet to accede to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons.

In what appears to be a separate incident to the Deputy Police Commander assassination, a roadside bomb wounded multiple police officers during their patrol in the Sistan-Baluchestan region today. Due to this information being confirmed by Iranian state media, it is possible there were deaths rather than injuries.