Analyst says US lacks leverage to force global isolation of Iran

When US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out “Operation Economic Outcast”, he told the world, "You are either with us or against us.”

Every country has to cut ties with Iran, or the US says it will sanction them.

So is Trump’s D-Day an attack of historic proportions? Or an administration out of ideas?

MEE’s Mathilda Mallinson speaks to Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington.