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US unveils new sanction intended to strangle Iran’s economy as conflict drags on; Tehran vows tough response_我的网站

A |     AI摘要      国台办批评赖清德“假民主、真独裁”，谴责民进党司法迫害陆配、美化日本殖民及漠视民生，强调将依法追责“台独”帮凶。

B |          北京8月19日电（记者 尚昊、许晓静）国务院台办发言人朱凤莲19日在例行新闻发布会上指出，赖清德上台以来，顽固坚持“台独”分裂立场，傲慢专横，滥权乱政，为实现“台独专政”，无视岛内民意民生，不断挑起政治恶斗，肆意打压异己，制造“绿色恐怖”和“寒蝉效应”，加剧台湾社会内耗撕裂。

C | 赖清德“假民主、真独裁”，早已恶名远扬。    

    Drivers queue at a petrol station to refuel in Tehran, on August 25, 2026. Photo: VCG
As military strikes and diplomatic negotiations have both failed to bring an early end to the roughly six‑month‑old US-Iran conflict, Washington rolled out new sanctions against Tehran on Monday local time intended to further strangle its economy. Iran, for its part, has vowed a tougher pushback.
In a news conference on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened new sanctions on countries refusing to cut economic ties with Iran, following recent rhetoric from Washington threatening an "economic D-Day" for Iran. 
Meanwhile, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under the US Treasury announced secondary sanctions on nearly 60 entities, individuals, and vessels in multiple jurisdictions which, according to the US' claims, enable Iran's activities, including so-called nuclear and missile technology procurement, cyber operations, and oil-revenue generation networks.
According to Reuters, those sanctions targeted businesses in China, the UAE, Singapore and several other countries, including a cooking-oil refinery in France, but did not include any of the Chinese financial institutions suspected of facilitating Iran's oil trade.
In response to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laying out plans for economic asphyxiation of Iran, expanding Washington's secondary sanction threats and warning of dire consequences for countries that do not join the campaign, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing on Tuesday that China has made clear on many occasions its firm opposition to illicit unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law or the authorization of the UN Security Council. 
"Economic warfare and maximum pressure provide no solution. On the contrary, they only serve to fuel tensions and lead to risk spillover, which will disrupt the global economic and financial order, and harm the legitimate rights and interests of other countries," the spokesperson said. 
The pressing task is to facilitate the deescalation of the situation and return to dialogue and negotiation as soon as possible, Lin said, adding that China will do everything necessary to firmly safeguard its rights and interests, Lin added. Lin also said China's cooperation with Iran is conducted within the framework of international law, thus should not be disrupted.
When asked whether China has received any such timeline, as the US stated it would give countries a timeline on when to shut down the actions that it has identified, and how China intends to respond to the relevant announcements by the US Treasury involving China-based entities and individuals, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated on Tuesday that China is closely following the developments, and will do everything necessary to firmly safeguard our rights and interests.
In May this year, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a blocking ban prohibiting any recognition, enforcement or compliance with US sanctions imposed on five Chinese companies on the grounds of their alleged involvement in Iranian petroleum transactions.
Relying on its financial hegemony and long‑arm jurisdiction, the US enforces unilateral sanctions with no basis in international law. Such measures severely undermine fundamental consensus for international trade and erode the existing international order, Zhou Mi, senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
In essence, Washington is imposing its Iran‑focused policies to enterprises across the globe, compelling third‑party actors to fall in line with its diplomatic objectives, Zhou noted.
The latest sanctions would affect a broader range of countries, industries and firms. They will not only draw wider opposition from the international community, but also boomerang on the interests of US‑owned enterprises, he added. 
Fewer levers left 
"We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe," Bessent claimed at a press conference. "Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline" that sustains the country, he said, according to a Treasury release. 
The US Treasury Department said in a release that the new sectoral sanctions determinations target five critical sectors - digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping - that the US claimed Iran has relied on to support its economy.
US Treasury claimed that "any entity that facilitates money laundering or sanctions evasion on behalf of Iran risks being cut off from the US financial system."
OFAC also suspended several general licenses that previously authorized certain remittance payments to Iran and Iranian access to the US cultural and academic system. The office also issued additional guidance on the so-called sanctions risks of bowing to Iranian demands related to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Mohammad Mokhber, an aide to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in an X post on Monday that Iran's response to US sanctions and pressure will be "more decisive than before."
Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh said that Tehran "is and was ready," with a two-year plan to counter Washington's new sanctions. He told state television that "it seems they wished to suffer yet another defeat," per an AFP report. 
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded in an X post that "the Americans know no one will believe their nonsense," noting that the US is not in a position economically to restrict its relations with other countries. 
Alan Eyre, a distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute, told NBC News that after six months of combat, the US government "has few remaining levers it can use to convince Iran's major trading partners to materially reduce their economic ties."
While Washington's maximum‑pressure campaign may deliver short‑term shocks to Iran's economy, it can hardly "strangle" the country completely, said Liu Zhongmin, a professor at the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University.
He added that Iran's economic resilience cannot be underestimated. Having borne decades of crippling sanctions from the US and Western nations, Tehran has built substantial experience in sanction‑busting and developed coping mechanisms ranging from basic‑industry self‑reliance and regional trade networks to oil‑for‑goods swaps and non‑US dollar‑denominated trade. Furthermore, the Strait of Hormuz remains a source of strategic leverage for Iran to push back against US pressure.
The expert said that Tehran and Washington are encountering "a battle of wills," and Iran believes the economic costs the US would suffer from a Hormuz blockade would outweigh the damage inflicted on Iran by sanctions.
Washington's "economic strangulation" policy risks ending in failure unless it yields short‑term outcomes, particularly securing the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, Liu added. 
Self-created dilemma
As the US ramps up pressure on Iran, Americans are growing averse to a protracted war.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday, US ‌public approval of the war with Iran fell to its lowest level since the conflict's early days, with just 31 percent of Americans supporting US military action.
On June 18, the US and Iran signed an MoU, under which the two were scheduled to hold negotiations within a period of 60 days, which ended on August 17, to reach a final agreement. However, the talks' fate remains unclear following renewed escalation between the two countries.
Iranian political analyst Mostafa Khoshcheschm told Al Jazeera that the new US sanctions intended to create an "economic onslaught" were a "political show" of intimidation. 
Liu said that by resorting to an "economic strangulation" tactic after miring itself in a fruitless military quagmire over Iran, the US has laid bare its practical predicament and strategic dilemma, and seemingly running out of cards.
Citing sources, CNN reported earlier this month that the US military has exhausted nearly 80 percent of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon's munitions stockpile is "dangerously low."
Faced with depleted ammunition stockpiles and insufficient military‑industrial capacity, and amid growing domestic criticism of its Middle East policy, the White House has opted for tough economic measures against Iran, Liu said. "Less costly than military coercion, such moves help Washington strike a tough posture before voters and shun political risks from further military escalation," said the expert.
There is, however, an increasingly obvious paradox in Washington's economic warfare against Iran: the tighter the sanctions, the tighter global energy supplies become, and the higher costs borne by American consumers and businesses, the expert added. 
。    有记者问：近期，英国《经济学人》周刊刊出最新台湾政局评论，罕见直接点名批评赖清德“固执”，不愿与国民党温和派协商，并以“挟持台湾民主”形容台湾政局。

D | 请问对此有何评论？朱凤莲作上述回应。    近日，赖清德在高雄声称，这一次年底选举的胜败将是衡量中国大陆对台策略有没有成功的指标。

E | 朱凤莲对此评论表示，每逢岛内选举，民进党的惯用伎俩就是操弄“反中抗中”，诬称“大陆贿选”。赖清德的逻辑是似乎“只有民进党赢得选举，才没有大陆介选的事；只要民进党选举输了，就是大陆在介选”。赖清德的做法更是卑鄙恶劣，不遗余力利用行政、司法等手段打击、迫害在野力量，企图在选举中为民进党谋取不正当利益。这种荒诞谬论和卑劣做法早已被越来越多台湾民众唾弃。    关于陆配徐春莺涉所谓“违反‘反渗透法’”等罪被判刑7年，朱凤莲答问表示，徐春莺案近日才宣判，民进党政客却早在数月前就已公然宣称要在其服刑结束后将其强制遣送出境。这充分说明，陆配被以所谓安全理由起诉，完全是民进党当局“先射箭再画靶”的司法迫害，其罗列的所谓“罪状”完全是“欲加之罪，何患无辞”。台湾地区所谓“司法”已成为民进党当局搞“恐怖政治”“绿色独裁”的工具。    她强调，我们坚决反对民进党当局以任何形式迫害大陆配偶，支持两岸婚姻家庭团结起来维护自身权益，希望广大台湾同胞反对民进党当局的恶行。

F | 对充当“台独”打手、帮凶迫害陆配的人，我们将依法终身追责，绝不宽贷。    今年8月15日是日本宣布无条件投降81周年。朱凤莲应询表示，台湾统派团体通过举办研讨会和论坛、开展集会等多种方式纪念抗战胜利和台湾光复，反对民进党当局淡化抗战历史、美化日本殖民统治，抗议日本再次介入台湾问题，呼吁台湾民众反对和制止“台独”势力勾连日本阻挠祖国统一、破坏台海和平。我们对于这些正义行动表示高度赞赏，并严厉谴责民进党当局背叛民族、背叛历史的丑恶行径。

G |     朱凤莲指出，对于日本政要参拜“战犯神社”，有关部门已表明严正立场。日本作为在台湾问题上负有历史罪责的国家，应深刻反省历史、切实反思纠错，恪守一个中国原则和中日四个政治文件精神，在台湾问题上谨言慎行。民进党当局“媚日恋殖”，让世人再度看清其背叛历史、背叛民族的丑恶嘴脸。    近日，致癌油风波在台湾持续延烧，民进党当局刻意包庇涉案公营企业引发民众强烈质疑。岛内民调显示，近六成受访者不满意民进党当局处理“毒油”事件的表现，并对后续处置没有信心。对此，朱凤莲评论说，致癌油问题延宕至今没有得到解决，充分暴露民进党当局漠视民生、逃避责任、治理无能的丑恶本质。台湾民众对此强烈不满，在情理之中。

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