{"id":99681,"date":"2026-06-09T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99681"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:48:02","slug":"scott-bessents-1-billion-crypto-seizure-claim-met-with-shakespeares-dwarfish-thief-dig-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99681","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent&#8217;s $1 Billion Crypto Seizure Claim Met With Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;Dwarfish Thief&#8217; Dig By Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson <strong>Esmaeil Baqaei <\/strong>used a famous quote from <strong>William Shakespeare\u2019s<\/strong> play \u201cMacbeth\u201d on Monday to ridicule Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent\u2019s<\/strong> claim about seizing $1 billion worth of Iran\u2019s cryptocurrencies. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Dwarfish Thief\u2019 In \u2018Giant\u2019s Robe\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Baqaei posted a video of Bessent from the Reagan National Economic Forum last month, where the Treasury Secretary said the U.S. had seized \u201cabout a billion dollars\u201d in Iran\u2019s digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize that their wallet has been grabbed,\u201d Bessent had said.<\/p>\n<p>Baqaei then threw a shade with a quote from Shakespeare\u2019s famous tragedy play that goes, \u201cNow does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant\u2019s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Now does he feel his title<br \/>Hang loose about him, like a giant&#8217;s robe<br \/>Upon &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53077838\/scott-bessent-1-billion-crypto-seizure-iran-dwarfish-thief-shakespeare-dig?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Scott\" bessent billion crypto seizure claim met with shakespeare thief dig by iran>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei used a famous quote from William Shakespeare\u2019s play \u201cMacbeth\u201d on Monday to ridicule Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent\u2019s claim about seizing $1 billion worth of Iran\u2019s cryptocurrencies. \u2018Dwarfish Thief\u2019 In \u2018Giant\u2019s Robe\u2019 Baqaei posted a video of Bessent from the Reagan National Economic Forum last month, where the Treasury Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-99681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}