11:23 - 4.06.2026

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June 4, Fineko/abc.az. The U.S. Treasury Department, acting under Operation Economic Fury, has announced new large-scale sanctions measures against Iran's digital asset sector.

ABC.AZ informs that the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added four major Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges - Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex - to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanction list. Alongside the platforms, OFAC sanctioned key executives from Nobitex, including co-founder Amir Hossein Rad and CEO Seyed Ali Khoee

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in a statement on this issue, claims that official Tehran uses digital asset technologies as a tool to circumvent sanctions and withdraw capital from the country. The minister stressed that in order to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, they will continue to closely monitor financial flows through both the traditional banking system and the cryptocurrency markets.