{"id":312309,"date":"2026-11-11T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=312309"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:23:58","slug":"nyt-treasury-secretary-moved-out-of-his-home-and-onto-a-military-base-after-threats-against-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/312309\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Treasury Secretary moved out of his home and onto a military base after threats against his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to the sources with knowledge of the matter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/bessent-moved-base-iran-threats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more advanced stage, based in part on intelligence about threats to Mr. Bessent, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>Since August, Mr. Bessent has led an economic pressure campaign meant to isolate Iran financially through tougher sanctions and restrictions on trade routes. That role has made him one of the administration officials that Iran most wants to harm, the people said.<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the threats to him is unclear. Iran&rsquo;s ability to carry out large-scale attacks in the United States and other territories overseas is limited, U.S. officials have noted.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a Treasury Department spokesperson said Mr. Bessent &ldquo;will not be deterred by the Iranian regime&rsquo;s threats,&rdquo; adding that he remains committed to executing the campaign to squeeze Iran&rsquo;s economy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to the sources with knowledge of the matter, The New York Times reports. U.S. officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":312276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312310,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312309\/revisions\/312310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}