‘Jaws of Death’: Iran Down to 2 Months of Fuel as U.S. Blockade Chokes Off Export Lifeline
Iran is down to roughly two months of gasoline as the U.S. blockade and President Donald Trump’s escalating economic offensive choke off the regime’s oil exports and remaining financial lifelines — a rapidly worsening crisis that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday branded the “Jaws of Death for the Iranian Economy.”
The extraordinary assessment came from inside the regime itself. Three senior Iranian sources told Reuters on Thursday that U.S. sanctions and the blockade are increasingly crippling Tehran’s ability to import critical goods, obtain foreign currency, and finance the costly networks it has long used to evade American restrictions.
Most strikingly, one of the officials said Iran — despite sitting atop some of the world’s largest oil reserves — has only about two months of gasoline remaining.
Iran’s battered refining infrastructure has left the country dependent on imported gasoline that it is increasingly unable to obtain, while the broader economic offensive is simultaneously stripping Tehran of the money and financial channels needed to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
Trump says US may target Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘very soon’
- US President Donald Trump has again threatened to attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, repeating a warning he first issued in mid-July.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advisor: ‘The Islamic forces will use the same method used with Banu Qurayza’
Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, beheaded between 600 and 900 men of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe after the Battle of the Trench, because of their alleged betrayal. Muhammad had already exiled the other two tribes in Medina, and the Qurayzah had no reason to believe he would treat them differently. What is interesting here is that Naqdi assumes the truth of the incident. Just a few years ago, Islamic apologists in the West, recognizing that it made Muhammad look bad, routinely denied that it was historically accurate. Of course, Naqdi is speaking from a Muslim country, where such accounts are well known, but in general, Islamic apologists are more forthright now about the aspects of Islam that Westerners consider unpleasant than they were quite recently.
“‘Flee quickly’ – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatens Israeli citizens,” Egypt Independent, September 2, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In other news:
- Iran’s air defence commander Brigadier-General Alireza Elhami says that Iran is “ready for any kind of confrontation” now or in the future because “the threat is not over”.
The senior advisor to the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Reza Naqdi urged Israelis to return to their countries and “flee quickly,” adding that those who remain will be treated “as Banu Qurayza were treated,” according to Iranian media.
Naqdi added, “They should know that the method the Islamic forces will use once they arrive there will be the same method used with Banu Qurayza.”
He continued, “Therefore, they must flee quickly, and those who remain will be treated according to the way the Banu Qurayza were treated, according to the rulings of the Torah, not according to Islamic mercy.”…