{"id":94690,"date":"2026-05-22T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=94690"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:03:03","slug":"binance-in-hot-water-report-links-exchange-to-secret-850-million-iran-military-funding-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=94690","title":{"rendered":"Binance In Hot Water? Report Links Exchange To Secret $850 Million Iran Military Funding Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange,\u00a0<strong>Binance<\/strong>, is reportedly at the heart of a secret payment network established by Iranian billionaire financier\u00a0<strong>Babak Zanjani<\/strong>\u00a0to fund Iran\u2019s military forces.<\/p>\n<p>Until December, Zanjani, an \u201cantisanction\u201d operator, allegedly facilitated transactions worth $850 million over two years through a single trading account on Binance as Tehran prepared for potential conflict with the U.S. Experts in terrorism-financing, foreign law-enforcement officials, and individuals privy to the activity suggest that roughly half of these transactions likely financed Iran\u2019s military, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-binance-crypto-military-e755b218?mod=hp_lead_pos7\">reported<\/a> the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Binance\u2019s internal investigators concluded that the accounts were part of a money-laundering network designed to fund the Iranian regime, as per the report. <\/p>\n<p>WSJ also reported that Iran&#8217;s central bank allegedly transferred $107 million in cryptocurrency into Binance accounts last year, while foreign investigators tracked roughly $260 million in transactions during 2024 and 2025 between Binance-linked accounts and wallets tied to sanctioned Iranian entities and suspected terrorist financiers.<\/p>\n<p>Binance did not immediately respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/\">Benzinga<\/a>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bz-read-next-block\"><\/div>\n<p>     data-variant=&#8221;card&#8221;<br \/>\n    &#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange,\u00a0Binance, is reportedly at the heart of a secret payment network established by Iranian billionaire financier\u00a0Babak Zanjani\u00a0to fund Iran\u2019s military forces. Until December, Zanjani, an \u201cantisanction\u201d operator, allegedly facilitated transactions worth $850 million over two years through a single trading account on Binance as Tehran prepared for potential conflict with the [&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-94690","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\/94690","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=94690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}