Ari Redbord
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
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So it wasn't just like, hey, we're going to send money.
It's we're going to actually essentially use these as shell companies.
At one point, I want to say almost 80% of all transactions through these exchanges were IRGC related.
So I think we see that.
And then the Central Bank of Iran is sort of just the latest example where we see essentially Iran's central bank spinning up crypto addresses and trying to move funds that way in order to circumvent the US financial system.
There's a couple other examples like this recently where we're seeing this with Iran, this reporting, which I struggle with a little bit around the Strait of Hormuz,
Is Iran going to collect tolls in crypto?
Bitcoin, yeah.
I haven't seen any really significant evidence of that.
And we've been looking everywhere we possibly can on chain.
But the fact that Iran is trying to experiment with that just shows that like they're trying to do anything they possibly can.
There was a report recently
There was a report today in the Wall Street Journal about the financial facilitator, a guy named Larjani, that we actually name in our Zedsex report, who actually was released from a death sentence, I think, in prison 10 years ago or something in Iran.
because he's so good at money laundering.
And he has essentially discovered crypto.
So he was the one behind ZSEX, possibly behind these central bank transactions.
And he's the go-to money laundering, launderer for IRGC.
So I say all that to say that I think
Like, you know, we started with Iran.
I'm sorry, we started with North Korea.
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