re: The US military is STRIKING IRAN- again

Tarzana your just another brainwashed tree hugging Communist who hates this country.

I might have to research your posts during Biden.

That vegetable was President and almost destroyed this country by himself. Of coarse the 8 years before him with the start of the decline and the 12 years of them have put us close to a communist takeover.

Congrats your vote for them has put the USA at risk.

You must be so proud because your ignorance and your fellow ignorant Democrats hate this country.

Otherwise you would wake up and understand everything our country has stood for these past 250 years is in jeopardy because of you.

Just keep quiet and let people wonder if you stupid. Why post and prove it.

I figured as much.

In more ways than one...

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The Central Bank of Iran. The sovereign monetary institution of the Islamic Republic. Holding state reserves in a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by a private company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made one call.

Tether froze four wallets. $131 million. Gone.

No court order. No correspondent bank to pressure. No SWIFT exclusion to negotiate. No months of diplomatic groundwork. The ceasefire had collapsed that morning. U.S. Central Command was launching new strikes. And inside the same news cycle, Iran's central bank reserves were frozen.

This is not the first time.

In April, Tether froze $344 million in USDT at U.S. authorities' request.

In May, Bessent confirmed the U.S. has seized approximately $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets under Operation Economic Fury a campaign that launched in March 2025.

Two days ago, a federal jury in New York convicted a Massachusetts man for conspiring to export electronics to Iran for the Revolutionary Guard's drone navigation program. The scheme ran through a front company in Switzerland. The supply chain to the IRGC was proven at trial.

Tuesday, the central bank's reserves were frozen while the bombs were dropping.

Here's what that sequence tells you.

Iran spent decades building workarounds to the dollar system. Correspondent banking exclusions. SWIFT removal. Oil sold in yuan and rupees. Gold. Barter arrangements. And eventually crypto. USDT on a Tron blockchain, held in wallets the Iranian central bank apparently believed were beyond U.S. reach.

They weren't.

Because here's what Iran and apparently a lot of other people missed: the dollar isn't just a currency. It's an infrastructure. And the stablecoin that Iran's central bank chose to hold its reserves in is denominated in dollars, issued by a company that responds to U.S. Treasury requests, and runs on a blockchain where every transaction is permanently visible to anyone with an internet connection.

Iran built its workaround on top of the system it was trying to work around.

Bessent's statement is worth reading carefully.

"US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran's illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets."

Abuse of digital assets.

The U.S. government is now framing Iranian sovereign monetary operations as abuse of the financial system. Not sanctions evasion. Not money laundering. Abuse. That framing matters because it positions every future freeze not as a geopolitical act but as a law enforcement action.

One more number.

Operation Economic Fury has now frozen or seized approximately $1.475 billion in Iranian crypto assets since March 2025.

Not from criminals. Not from proxies. From Iran's own financial apparatus.

The question the framework has been asking since 2017 is whether the financial denial layer was real or performative. Whether the enforcement architecture actually worked or just produced press releases.

This week, Iran's central bank answered that question.

Watch the money. Not the podium

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It's the same regime, different people, but the same organization runs the country

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Much like the U.S.

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Don't bother, he's always been a complete idiot.

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I seem to remember reading in here that "he" is actually a "she"? The "complete idiot" label still remains, however. Just my opinion.