{"id":201840,"date":"2026-07-21T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201840"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:42:30","slug":"u-s-treasury-freezes-130-million-iran-linked-irgc-crypto-wallet-tracks-ayatollahs-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201840","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Treasury Freezes $130 Million Iran-Linked IRGC Crypto Wallet, Tracks Ayatollah\u2019s Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Treasury Freezes $130 Million Iran-Linked IRGC Crypto Wallet, Tracks Ayatollah\u2019s Assets<\/a><\/p>\n

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said<\/a> on Fox News on Tuesday that the United States froze a crypto wallet linked to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worth $130 million, part of a campaign to track the assets of Iran\u2019s supreme leader around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tracking these accounts all over the world,\u201d Bessent said, in remarks that framed the Treasury work as one prong of an \u201ceconomic fury\u201d push against Tehran alongside a blockade. \u201cWe froze a crypto wallet linked to the IRGC the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said investigators had \u201cfound the money man for the Ayatollah\u201d and were tracing the holdings of Ali Khamenei, including properties he valued at more than $100 million. Bessent said the Treasury hopes to publish the addresses of those properties. He cast the seizures as a transfer of value to the American people and a squeeze on the regime.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s economy in \u2018freefall\u2019<\/h2>\n

Bessent also described a collapse in Iran\u2019s economy. He said the rial sits at an all-time low against the dollar and called it in \u201cfreefall,\u201d with an inflation rate he put \u201cupwards of 180%.\u201d His account tracks the rial slide that has pushed some Iranians toward bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The comments extend a Treasury campaign that has run through the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States. The department has sanctioned Iran\u2019s largest crypto exchange<\/a> and said the U.S. has seized $1 billion of Iran\u2019s crypto<\/a>. Blockchain analysts have tied billions in on-chain flows to IRGC-linked wallets, with such wallets receiving more than $3 billion in 2025, a rise from over $2 billion the year before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a separate move, the stablecoin issuer Tether froze<\/a> $344 million in USDT across two blockchain addresses tied to the IRGC, one of the largest single actions in the sequence.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s design draws both sides of the fight. It settles without a correspondent bank or a reserve-currency issuer, a trait that lets Iran monetize oil access outside the dollar system and lets Treasury trace and freeze value on a public ledger.<\/p>\n

The conflict has reshaped how crypto figures into the region. Since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began, bitcoin use inside the country has surged<\/a> as residents moved value out of the banking system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tehran, for its part, reportedly moved to accept bitcoin<\/a> from tankers seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a $1-per-barrel toll that turns its grip on the chokepoint into settlement revenue<\/a>. The strait carries a fifth of the world\u2019s oil.<\/p>\n

The war has repriced bitcoin<\/a> as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Treasury has not published documentation of the $130 million wallet freeze or the property addresses Bessent referenced. The inflation and currency figures came from his remarks rather than from Iranian data.<\/p>\n

This post U.S. Treasury Freezes $130 Million Iran-Linked IRGC Crypto Wallet, Tracks Ayatollah\u2019s Assets<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Treasury Freezes $130 Million Iran-Linked IRGC Crypto Wallet, Tracks Ayatollah\u2019s Assets Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Fox News on Tuesday that the United States froze a crypto wallet linked to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worth $130 million, part of a campaign to track the assets of Iran\u2019s supreme leader around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}