Janet Yellen has warned Iran that nothing is “off the table” if Tehran is linked to this week’s militant attacks on Israel, even as the US Treasury secretary stressed that no decisions had been taken on economic sanctions.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday in Marrakech, Yellen said the US is “constantly looking at” its sanctions policy against Iran, Hamas and Hizbollah. Washington would be “using information that comes available” to adjust its approach, as she condemned the assault on Israel in the “strongest possible terms”.
“I wouldn’t take anything off the table in terms of future possible actions, but I certainly don’t want to get ahead of where we are on that,” she told reporters, responding to a question on what the US planned to do with $6bn in frozen Iranian oil assets that it released in September.