Bessent wrote “economic D-Day.” The list is still Monday.

The paper on Sunday is an op-ed. The paper on Monday is supposed to be a list. Do not mix them up.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in the Financial Times that “at dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.” He said the objective is “to sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.” He called the war the “endgame.” He said the rial has never been weaker and inflation has rarely been higher. He warned that “any remaining tie to Tehran will hasten the economic ostracism of countries and entities, whether that tie be purposefully constructed or wilfully ignored.” Those are his sentences. They are not a Federal Register notice.

NBC, citing Reuters, says the press conference is 2 p.m. Eastern Monday. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a Telegram video Sunday: Washington moving from military operations to “the same old plans” is desperation, he said, and “this new issue of theirs will fail as well.” Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told Iranian state television Saturday that if Trump “wants to do something, we will retaliate in a seismic manner,” and that if neighbors join the economic war, “not a drop of oil will leave” the Gulf and Hormuz. Iran said Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, would be in Tehran Monday. A Pakistani government source told Reuters the visit would touch the sanctions threat. That is a mediator on a plane. It is not a deal.

CENTCOM’s Sunday tally of 70 redirected ships is already on this wire. Bessent’s CNBC line from Aug. 20 — “we are going to collapse this regime” — is a television interview, not the Monday text. Trump’s Truth Social “ECONOMIC D-DAY” last week is a social post. The FT piece is the Sunday document. The list is still tomorrow.

Slogans are cheap. A sanctions annex is not. Print the speech. Wait for the paper.