{"id":67118,"date":"2026-01-09T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67118"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:46:32","slug":"bitcoins-overlooked-role-in-the-protests-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67118","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s Overlooked Role In The Protests In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) may play an underrated role in the recent protests in Iran, with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard reportedly moving $1 billion through crypto exchanges to evade sanctions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Currency Collapse Drives Mass Bitcoin Adoption<\/h3>\n<p>The Iranian rial crashed to a record 1.42 million per U.S. dollar in late December, having lost over 40% of its value since June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>While ordinary citizens flee economic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/01\/09\/iran-irgc-revolutionary-guard-cryptocurrency\/\">collapse<\/a>, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been using cryptocurrency for a different purpose: evading international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>TRM Labs identified Zedcex and Zedxion, two UK-registered exchanges, as key facilitators of IRGC transactions. IRGC-linked activity accounted for 56% of total volume on these platforms between 2023 and 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of transactions used Tether\u2019s USDT stablecoin on the <strong>Tron<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/TRX-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"TRX\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/trx\/usd\">TRX<\/a>) blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>IRGC &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49823153\/bitcoins-overlooked-role-in-the-protests-in-iran?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin's\" overlooked role in the protests iran>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may play an underrated role in the recent protests in Iran, with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard reportedly moving $1 billion through crypto exchanges to evade sanctions. Currency Collapse Drives Mass Bitcoin Adoption The Iranian rial crashed to a record 1.42 million per U.S. dollar in late December, having lost over 40% 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-67118","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\/67118","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=67118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}