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Secondary sanctions

Sanctions that penalise third-country firms and governments for dealing with a primary sanctions target, often by restricting their access to the US financial system.

Current clusters

security6 publishers

Treasury designates MOIS hackers; the UK plant that stopped for four days is not in the file

Monday's package attributes years of critical infrastructure intrusion to a MOIS team and puts names on a charge sheet. The plant outage everyone is discussing appears nowhere in it.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 15%
Operator
Operator 52%
Investor
Investor 33%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+40
Incentives60
Confidence65
invest3 publishers

Bessent expands secondary sanctions to isolate Iran from dollar system

Bessent scoped his threat to countries and to five sectors rather than to a list of firms, which makes locating the Iran perimeter the day job of banks, shippers and payment companies with no Iranian customers at all.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 12%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 47%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption25
Hype gap+45
Incentives55
Confidence60