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Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, responded on X by sharing screenshots showing the US national debt reaching $40 trillion and calling Trump’s threatened "Economic D-Day" a diversion from America’s own crisis of unprecedented debt and surging interest costs.

Washington · Aug 20 · part of Treasury Calls $40T Debt a Deterrent After Iran Post
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On Thursday, Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s minister of foreign affairs posted on X screenshots from various news outlets reporting that the US national debt had reached $40tn for the first time in history.