\n 2026-08-07T19:50:39+00:00<\/p>\n
font<\/p>\n
Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n
\n A-
\n A
\n A+\n <\/p>\n
Shafaq News- Washington\/ Tehran<\/p>\n
The United States on Friday sanctioned two digital-asset exchanges and a multinational company network accused of laundering billions of dollars, evading sanctions, and moving cryptocurrency for Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Treasury Department announced.<\/p>\n
The Treasury targeted<\/a> Shelbit Exchange, Iran-based Aban Tether, and businessman Siavash Kayvanpour and companies linked to him in Georgia, Poland, and the United Arab Emirates. It claimed IRGC-linked digital addresses sent more than $1 million in cryptocurrency to Shelbit, while more than $2 million flowed from Shelbit addresses to IRGC-linked wallets.<\/p>\n Addresses owned or controlled by Kayvanpour also allegedly transferred more than $2 million to Nobitex, Iran\u2019s largest digital-asset exchange, which Washington sanctioned on June 2.<\/p>\n Shelbit supposedly serviced a large Persian-language online gambling network, with tens of millions of dollars in digital assets allegedly laundered through the exchange. Reuters reported on July 31 that at least $4 billion had moved through Shelbit in an Iran-linked network involving more than 2,000 gambling websites, Iran\u2019s central bank, and parties linked to the IRGC. Shelbit denied knowingly facilitating money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, or transactions for sanctioned or military entities.<\/p>\n Aban Tether was separately sanctioned for operating in Iran\u2019s financial sector after processing millions of dollars in transactions involving previously designated Iranian exchanges, including Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex.<\/p>\n On June 2, Treasury sanctioned Nobitex and three other exchanges, saying Nobitex processed more than half of all Iranian digital-asset inflows in 2025 and facilitated transactions linked to the IRGC, and on July 24, the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted four people and nine entities tied to Iranian financier Babak Zanjani, including businesses involved in digital-asset trading and alleged sanctions evasion.<\/p>\n Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Friday\u2019s action formed part of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cEconomic Fury\u201d and maximum-pressure campaign, pledging to pursue Iranian financial networks operating through dollars, rials, or cryptocurrency. The State Department\u2019s Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $15 million for information that helps disrupt the IRGC\u2019s financial mechanisms.<\/p>\n Read more: <\/a>US tightens sanctions on Iran’s financial network<\/a> <\/p>\n