Trump ruled out US strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms and kept the naval blockade in force. Brent still traded near $103 a barrel on Friday, and a pledge that lapses on election day returns no Iranian oil to the market.
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OFAC's Sept. 17 action covers the Tehran exchange, its developer Pishtaz Simorgh and three Dot One executives, over hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that Treasury says moved to the IRGC in June and July.
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Naked Capitalism says Bessent has moved to contain longer-dated Treasury yields, against the Fed. Duration holders should care more about that than about another Iran sanctions threat.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says oil could settle at $40-50 a barrel once the Iran war ends, a date he says he does not know. Without that date, investors get a direction for oil, yields and mortgage rates and have to price the wait themselves.
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At the G20, Bessent Sets an Iran Ultimatum Alongside $40 Trillion in Debt
The Treasury secretary wants G20 partners to cut Iran ties, shrink their current account surpluses and believe that yields are heading down. Follow the flows and those three asks pull against each other.
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Senate report naming tether as Iran's liquidity rail raises sanctions risk for Gulf crypto firms
US Senate investigators have named tether a key source of liquidity for Iran's shadow banking network in a new subcommittee report. A Septten lawyer says Gulf merchants paid in local currency stay exposed, though licensed exchanges carry most of the screening work.
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Iran's rial sinks past 2.5 million per dollar before its last oil payments arrive
Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar in Tehran trading after the country loaded no oil at its terminals in September, a first since 1979. The currency has lost 40% of its value this year while money for oil shipped before the blockade is still coming in.
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Iran weighs a US reply on Hormuz as the rial loses 12% of its value in 27 days
Iran says it has an official US reply to its proposal to end the war, and the rial has passed 2.5 million to the dollar, a record low. Tehran's price for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is cash, and a currency falling this fast makes each week of talks more expensive for Tehran.
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Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days only if oil sanctions and the US naval blockade end, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. With Donald Trump rejecting the offer, budgets set this quarter are safer treating the disruption as the base case.
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Iran's rial loses 12% against the dollar in 27 days as Tehran narrows talks to Hormuz
Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar on Tuesday, 27 days after a record 2.2 million, losing at least 12% of its dollar value. Each week the Hormuz talks stall now costs Tehran through its exchange rate and Washington through gasoline prices.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Iran's open-market rate went from 1,918,000 to about 2,015,000 between July 17 and August 24. Compounded, that is 61% a year, slower than the January-to-April leg, and with no bid underneath it.
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Operation Economic Outcast names nearly 60 targets, but the durable change is the standing authority to designate foreign firms in crypto, technology, gold, aviation and shipping.
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The notice alleges $1.8bn moved for 103 companies over thirty months. The Emirati central bank ordered a forensic review inside a day, which is where the real cost of a designation lands, well before any rule is final.
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Bessent scoped his threat to countries and to five sectors rather than to a list of firms, which makes locating the Iran perimeter the day job of banks, shippers and payment companies with no Iranian customers at all.
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The Southern District of New York filed on September 14 to take roughly $61 million in crypto from two China-based firms that used Binance trading accounts, under a standard of proof that stops at more likely than not.
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Manhattan prosecutors are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed trading that breached US sanctions on Iran, and the compliance numbers the exchange offers in response cover four named venues and about $4 million of flow.
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SDNY's $61M Iran forfeiture covers about 4% of the oil flow it describes
A civil forfeiture complaint in Manhattan targets two Chinese firms and describes more than $1.5 billion in Iranian oil proceeds. Binance appears in it as a venue, and Richard Teng says the exchange is not accused.
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Iran's doubled above-quota fuel price costs a driver two cents more a liter
Tehran said on Sept. 7 that gasoline bought past a subsidized quota would cost about four cents a liter, and within days taxi drivers in Kerman were protesting the quota cuts while Snapp drivers struck across several provinces.
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A sectoral determination under Executive Order 13902 exposes any foreign firm Treasury says operates in Iran's digital asset sector. Two of roughly 60 names in Monday's action were crypto-linked.
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