U.S. Broadens Iran Sanctions to Cover Crypto Activity, Cites $100M+ in Oil-Linked Payments
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The U.S. Treasury expanded Iran-related sanctions to explicitly cover digital-asset activity, citing over $100M in crypto payments tied to Iranian crude oil sales and designating a broker and UAE entity. The broadened OFAC authority increases compliance and counterparty-risk across exchanges, brokers, and OTC rails, and reinforces enforcement focus on sanctions-evasion flows. Near-term, this can dampen risk appetite and tighten liquidity for higher-risk crypto transactions.
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The U.S. Treasury has expanded its Iran sanctions framework to explicitly include the digital asset sector, saying cryptocurrency payments of more than $100 million were used to facilitate Iranian crude oil sales.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also sanctioned nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels tied to networks involving nuclear, missile, cyber and crude oil activities.
Under the new designation, OFAC is authorized to target foreign individuals and companies operating in Iran's digital assets sector or providing support services to it. Treasury said Iran is increasingly turning to cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions, including transactions linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and government insiders.
Treasury identified Ivan Obukhov, a Ukrainian broker based in the UAE, as having processed more than $100 million in cryptocurrency payments since 2023 to support crude oil sales for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force. OFAC added Obukhov and his UAE-based firm, Foscom FZE, to its sanctions list. (Cointelegraph)
