{"id":20578,"date":"2025-04-04T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20578"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:46:38","slug":"iran-backed-houthi-group-faces-sanctions-on-cryptocurrency-wallets-funding-war-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20578","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Backed Houthi Group Faces Sanctions On Cryptocurrency Wallets Funding War Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Treasury Department took action against a Houthi financial network, imposing sanctions on cryptocurrency wallets used by the Iran-backed militant group to fund its war machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: According to a\u00a0Wednesday press release, the\u00a0Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Office\u00a0of Foreign Assets Control identified eight digital\u00a0wallets used by the Yemen-based group to help procure millions worth of weapons and commodities, including stolen Ukrainian grain, from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions targeted Russian-based\u00a0Afghan nationals <strong>Hushang and Sohrab\u00a0Ghairat,<\/strong> who have facilitated commercial\u00a0operations on behalf of the\u00a0Houthis, and particularly <strong>Sa&#8217;id al-Jamal<\/strong>,\u00a0who had cryptocurrency addresses included\u00a0in his December 2024 sanctions\u00a0designation.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation by <strong>Chainalysis<\/strong>, a firm that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainalysis.com\/blog\/ofac-sanctions-houthi-network-crypto-money-laundering-russia-april-2025\/\">tracks<\/a> illicit cryptocurrency activity, revealed that the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44643349\/us-treasury-targets-houthi-financial-network-imposes-sanctions-on-russian-based-afghan-nationals\" alt=\"Iran-Backed\" houthi group faces sanctions on cryptocurrency wallets funding war efforts>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Treasury Department took action against a Houthi financial network, imposing sanctions on cryptocurrency wallets used by the Iran-backed militant group to fund its war machine. What Happened: According to a\u00a0Wednesday press release, the\u00a0Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Office\u00a0of Foreign Assets Control identified eight digital\u00a0wallets used by the Yemen-based group to help procure millions worth of [&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-20578","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\/20578","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=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}