Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the government had adopted a new arrangement to manage the country's special conditions as economic pressure intensifies. He announced the arrangement in a post on X, without explaining what it would involve or when its measures would take effect.

The announcement comes amid a US economic campaign targeting Iran and the networks that Washington says sustain its government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Pezeshkian presented the arrangement as a response to the conditions facing Iran, but did not identify the specific steps the government would take.

Pezeshkian says pressure has intensified

Pezeshkian said Iran was facing stronger economic pressure. He accused its adversaries, particularly the United States, of trying in recent months to cut off the country's vital economic lifelines in order to put pressure on the Iranian people.

He said government measures and public support had prevented those adversaries from achieving their objectives in what he described as an economic war. His account did not detail the measures already taken or provide specific information about their effects.

The president's statement therefore combined an acknowledgement of increased pressure with an assertion that Iran had resisted its intended aims. He did not set out how the newly announced arrangement would operate alongside the government's existing measures.

US campaign targets economic networks

The US Treasury Department launched Operation Economic Outcast in August, describing it as a government-wide economic campaign against Iran and those enabling it. The department said the operation aimed to sever the economic lifelines sustaining Iran's government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The stated US objective focuses on the financial support available to those institutions. Pezeshkian, by contrast, described the pressure as an effort to harm the Iranian population and said the government's response had prevented its opponents from reaching their goals.

Treasury seeks action from other governments

After the operation began, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Treasury officials had travelled around the world to urge other governments to take action against Iran.

That outreach forms part of the US campaign outlined by the Treasury. Pezeshkian's announcement offered no details about how Iran's new arrangement would address that international effort.