Washington’s economic war on Iran and its ‘shadow’ banking network continues, as on Friday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US has seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the economic component of President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury.
The billion dollar figure represents the running total seized to date, building on prior milestones in the conflict, particularly a recent major April 2026 freeze of $344 million in USDT on the Tron blockchain. By close of April, $500 million total had been seized.
And so clearly with the addition since then of some half-billion dollars more in seized digital assets, the US Treasury program has only greatly accelerated in the last several weeks.
During his Friday speech before the Reagan National Economic Forum, Bessent stated:
“Just outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet had been grabbed.”
Assets are held “on behalf of the Iranian people” – he described, while framing that the Iranian government had ‘stolen’ the money from the Iranian populace.
Bessent is signaling further relentless waves of OFAC wallet designations and aggressive asset forfeitures coming in the next months, as highly sanctioned Iran continues to seek alternative means of conducting financial transactions.
As we’ve featured before, for ordinary Iranians – roughly one in six of the population – crypto served as a vital lifeline. Facing relentless rial depreciation (down nearly 90 percent since 2018), chronic inflation of 40 to 50 percent, and frequent power blackouts or internet shutdowns during protests, citizens turned to Bitcoin and stablecoins like U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins (USDT) on the Tron network to hedge savings, facilitate remittances, and move value when traditional banking failed. Spikes in Bitcoin withdrawals to personal wallets often coincided with domestic unrest and regional conflicts.
Yet this parallel financial system has also become a powerful tool for the state. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) steadily tightened its grip on Iran’s crypto flows. IRGC-linked addresses received more than $3 billion in 2025—up from over $2 billion in 2024—with their share rising to more than 50 percent of total Iranian crypto inflows by the end of 2025. These figures represent conservative lower bounds based only on identified and sanctioned wallets.
Washington in the meantime is still entertaining dreams of sparking some kind of anti-regime uprising based on applying the economic squeeze to the Iranian system, but apart from unrest back in January, this has utterly failed to materialize.
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Bessent is a disgusting homosexual who works for his Satanic Zionist masters. Trump has more homosexuals in his govt than Biden or Obama. Trump and the new Republican Party are proud to support Sodomite Pride Month in America and at Mar A Lago and all of his clubs. America is an utterly wicked nation.
HELL YEAH!!!! With this inflation that will fund the government for 1 hour. Truly reason to celebrate.
So we are condoning state-sponsored theft now? Seems like we took a dim view when the Nazis did it, just sayin’. And the Iranian people will never see a dime of it, guaranteed. People want to convince themselves they are the good guys when they are really evil scoundrels like the next guy.
Add collective punishment too, as witness to the wink and nod we give Iz
Notice how they don’t say how they did it, which makes you wonder if it’s real that they even did.
So the unprovoked stealing a sovereign nation’s assets is ok as long as you do it for the Zionists now?
> unprovoked
Hi retard.
Listen very closely, can you hear it?
…We Grabbed the Wallets’ – Bessent Boasts $1 Billion in Iranian State Crypto Seized to Date
So, he is saying it is wise for Americans to invest in safe, secure, ANONYMOUS crypto.
Was that a scream I heard?
Yo, if , that a lizard mofo, Im going back to re education camp, like right now, send a limo to, I”ll play him that movie called The Box, get twighlight zone in this shid, brenda from scary movie, all them shids, maybe even pull up frankenstein from the 30’s
These booty holes forget 1 thing, I go to sleep watching the Sound of Music, or The Exorcist, doestnt phase me at all,
I may throw in A Freddy movie or Friday the 13th, or put on the Hall Mark Channell see some Grannies coming clean, oh Hell Raiser is great to
You know that gay leader vampite from lost boys looking mof grabbed a few nut sucks on the way
As the great American songster John McCain sang: “Hack Hack Hack, Hack Hack Iran…”
Google says: “Iran has successfully utilized Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency networks to generate and move billions of dollars, creating a parallel financial system to bypass Western sanctions. The scale and impact of this strategy include: Massive Accumulated Wealth: Blockchain analytics firms estimate Iran’s total state and civilian cryptocurrency ecosystem is worth nearly $7.8 billion. The central bank holds over $500 million in digital assets, while groups like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have moved over $3 billion in digital assets. Iran uses this cryptocurrency to fund imports, acquire weapons, and even settle international trade, such as requiring cryptocurrency for shipping tolls in the Strait of Hormuz.
On behalf of the Iranian people. What a noble venture. I like Bessent he really is the traditional American choice for presidential material. He has class and an envious calm about him. But…what sounds good on paper has thus far been disappointing since manipulation of the money Americans need to fix their lives is ignored. How much of the recently seized fraud money will actually be spent on American lives and their future?
Trump might be increasing America’s oil futures with this Iran War, but why keep drilling? Why not save what we have for ourselves? Selling natural gas from our pipeline in Pennsylvania will only turn it into a target. If the coal mines beneath those gas wells catches fire, say goodbye to the northern east coast. See what happened in Centralia, PA. We screwed Russia over with their pipeline so do you think we might have a payback coming, in that regard? Turning America into a cement data base center to control the entire world, doesn’t a good neighbor make. Who wants to live in an environment where enemies lie behind every door? Who can plan on a future when the population is so far in the soup that it will never recuperate. I might be a pessimist for thinking that way but seeing America vaporized economically, materially, and spiritually doesn’t make for a rosy future. Like wild African dogs, the political class here and in Israel and Europe, doesn’t make for a peaceful future. They will have to kill us all to make their dreams come true.
1. This is why no one can trust government. They’re politicians, so they’re well known thieves and parasites who want to steal other people’s money.
2. This is why you can’t trust any of the Stable Coins, like USDT, which government wants us to use as a CBDC, to store your money, because government can track it, know what you buy, how much you got, and to whom you donated your money. And as you can see, government, aka thieving politicians can steal it. Instead, you should use Privacy coins, which prevent all these government crimes. Currently, the best privacy cryptos are Pirate Chain and Monero.
By way of truth thou shalt do war. Exemptincome . org
That is what jews do and it is in their DNA, they steal money at all levels. They used to be called “travelers” or “gypsies.”
Now they work for HR Block, TurboTax, the IRS, State and local tax depts, school boards, and of course The Treasury.
This is why jews permeate the accounting and medical industries, to steal your hard earned money while they live in complete comfort, with govt protections galore.
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Gyppos or I got gypped ring a bell???
The Israelification of America is really disgusting and having this clown brag about it will surely boost our popularity throughout the world
After stealing ordinary peoples money, I guess we could give out food to them and when they show up hungry, 86 them just like ‘they’ did in GAZA