{"id":1010983,"date":"2026-05-30T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010983"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:29:15","slug":"us-seized-1-billion-in-iranian-crypto-scott-bessent-says-claims-tehran-facing-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/us-seized-1-billion-in-iranian-crypto-scott-bessent-says-claims-tehran-facing-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"US seized $1 billion in Iranian crypto, Scott Bessent says; claims Tehran facing financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday (local time) said that the United States has seized roughly USD 1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of Washington&#8217;s economic pressure campaign against Tehran. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Fox Business&#8217; &#8220;Kudlow&#8221; during the Reagan National Economic Forum, Bessent emphasised the administration&#8217;s sanctions and asset seizure efforts under &#8220;Operation Economic Fury&#8221; as having pushed Iran into a severe financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday (local time) said that the United States has seized roughly USD 1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of Washington&#8217;s economic pressure campaign against Tehran. Speaking on Fox Business&#8217; &#8220;Kudlow&#8221; during the Reagan National Economic Forum, Bessent emphasised the administration&#8217;s sanctions and asset seizure efforts under &#8220;Operation Economic Fury&#8221; as having pushed Iran into a severe financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010984,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010983\/revisions\/1010984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}