{"id":85785,"date":"2026-04-24T19:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85785"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:31:32","slug":"scott-bessent-says-we-will-follow-the-money-as-us-sanctions-344m-from-iran-linked-crypto-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85785","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent Says &#8216;We Will Follow The Money&#8217; As US Sanctions $344M From Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The US Treasury sanctioned multiple crypto wallets tied to Iran today, one day after stablecoin issuer Tether froze roughly $344 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USDT-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USDT\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>) linked to the same network.<\/p>\n<p>The freeze hit two <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>) addresses holding around $213 million and $131 million respectively, carried out in coordination with the Office of Foreign Assets Control and US law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will follow the money that Tehran is desperately attempting to move outside of the country,\u201d Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/398847\/us-sanctions-iran-linked-crypto-wallets-addresses-344-million-frozen-tether-cnn?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Shadow Economy In The Strait<\/h2>\n<p>The action fits a broader pattern of Iran leaning on crypto rails to sidestep sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>Since mid-March, Tehran has been charging transit &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/04\/52044956\/scott-bessent-says-we-will-follow-the-money-as-us-sanctions-344m-from-iran-linked-cryp?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Scott\" bessent says will follow the money as us sanctions from iran-linked crypto wallets>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury sanctioned multiple crypto wallets tied to Iran today, one day after stablecoin issuer Tether froze roughly $344 million in (CRYPTO: USDT) linked to the same network. The freeze hit two Tron (CRYPTO: TRX) addresses holding around $213 million and $131 million respectively, carried out in coordination with the Office of Foreign Assets [&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-85785","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\/85785","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=85785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}