Spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Esmail Baghaei published on the social network X a fragment from a speech by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the Americans had confiscated a billion dollars worth of Iranian cryptocurrency reserves.
An Iranian official comments on this with a quote from William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”: “He now feels that the king’s dignity hangs on him, like the robe of a giant on a thieving dwarf.” The allusion to the murderous king is intended to portray the American administration as a usurper doomed to death.