By Gavin Finch
THE U.S. has sanctioned Nobitex, Iran’s biggest crypto exchange, accusing it of enabling the Iranian government and blacklisted state institutions to circumvent Western sanctions.
The new sanctions follow a Reuters investigation published last month which showed how Nobitex had become a central node in a parallel financial system used to process hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran’s central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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