{"id":42109,"date":"2026-05-03T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-the-us-is-targeting-irans-access-to-crypto\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:15:22","slug":"treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-the-us-is-targeting-irans-access-to-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/lt\/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-the-us-is-targeting-irans-access-to-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says the US Is Targeting Iran\u2019s Access to Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent posted on X on April 29 that Washington\u2019s sanctions campaign is now going after Iran\u2019s \u201caccess to crypto,\u201d alongside oil exports, shipping networks, and shadow banking channels.<\/p>\n

It is the first time the Treasury has named digital assets so explicitly in the context of the Iran pressure campaign, and it puts crypto squarely in the middle of a geopolitical dispute that has already been moving Bitcoin\u2019s price for weeks.<\/p>\n

Treasury Links Crypto to Iran Sanctions Push<\/h2>\n

In the post, Bessent sak\u0117 .<\/a> the Treasury, through what he called \u201cEconomic Fury,\u201d had targeted Iran\u2019s shadow banking system, crypto access, weapons procurement networks, and the Chinese \u201cteapot\u201d refineries that buy Iranian crude.<\/p>\n

According to him, the measures had disrupted \u201ctens of billions of dollars of revenue\u201d that otherwise would have been used to fund terrorism, adding that Kharg Island, Iran\u2019s main oil export terminal, was nearing storage capacity, a situation he said could force production cuts worth roughly $170 million a day in lost revenue.<\/p>\n

Still, the crypto mention is what stood out, as for years, sanctions enforcement focused on banks, oil traders, and shipping firms. Putting digital assets in the same sentence as shadow banking and weapons procurement is a signal that Treasury believes crypto is being used not just for small transfers but as part of actual trade settlement infrastructure.<\/p>\n

According to market analyst Shanaka Anslem Perera, the latest action designated 35 entities and individuals under two existing executive orders. He named<\/a> UK-registered Shuqun Ltd, which allegedly transferred more than $70 million for Iranian crude on behalf of the National Iranian Oil Company through 2024, and Fratello Carbone Trading Limited, which reportedly moved more than $20 million.<\/p>\n

The total number of Iran-related targets under Economic Fury has now passed one thousand since February 25. Perera\u2019s reading of Bessent\u2019s language was that the warning was not primarily directed at Tehran. It was directed at every bank, exchange, and intermediary anywhere in the world that processes Iranian flows.<\/p>\n

Why Crypto Keeps Coming Up in the Hormuz Dispute<\/h2>\n

This is not the first time crypto and Iran have collided in the markets this month, with the Financial Times reporting on April 8 that Iranian officials were demanding Bitcoin payments for ships seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz. When those reports emerged, BTC ran<\/a> from around $68,000 to nearly $73,000.<\/p>\n

Since then, the situation has continued to change, including information coming out on April 27 that Iran had submitted a new peace proposal through Pakistani mediators. This sent<\/a> Bitcoin briefly to a 12-week high near $80,000 before it got rejected and fell back hard.<\/p>\n

However, yesterday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran had entered a \u201cstate of collapse,\u201d pushing oil past $100 a barrel and pulling<\/a> BTC below $76,000.<\/p>\n

Those price moves show how closely crypto now trades with geopolitical risk, energy supply concerns, and sanctions policy, and if Washington can disrupt crypto-linked settlement channels tied to Iranian trade, it may reduce one workaround for sanctions. But if alternative rails keep operating, the campaign may simply push more transactions away from the dollar system and into the yuan or digital assets.<\/p>\n

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