{"id":1012137,"date":"2026-06-04T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012137"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:18:47","slug":"us-sanctions-irans-largest-crypto-exchange-over-irgc-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/us-sanctions-irans-largest-crypto-exchange-over-irgc-links\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Iran&#8217;s largest crypto exchange over IRGC links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The United States announced sanctions on Iran&#8217;s biggest cryptocurrency exchange \u200bon Tuesday, accusing it of enabling \u200bthe Iranian government and blacklisted state institutions to circumvent Western \u200bsanctions. <\/p>\n<p>The new sanctions follow a Reuters investigation published on May 1 which showed how Nobitex had become a central node in a parallel financial system used to process hundreds of millions of dollars for \u200cIran&#8217;s central \u2060bank and \u2060the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The report also revealed how Nobitex continued operating even after the government-imposed internet shutdown, processing millions of dollars of transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The United States announced sanctions on Iran&#8217;s biggest cryptocurrency exchange \u200bon Tuesday, accusing it of enabling \u200bthe Iranian government and blacklisted state institutions to circumvent Western \u200bsanctions. The new sanctions follow a Reuters investigation published on May 1 which showed how Nobitex had become a central node in a parallel financial system used to process hundreds of millions of dollars for \u200cIran&#8217;s central \u2060bank and \u2060the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The report also revealed how Nobitex continued operating even after the government-imposed internet shutdown, processing millions of dollars of transactions.<\/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-1012137","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\/1012137","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=1012137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012141,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012137\/revisions\/1012141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}