US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stated that Washington has seized “close to half a billion” dollars in Iranian cryptocurrency assets, adding that the US “Operation Economic Fury” has pushed the government in Tehran into “crisis”, News.Az reports, citing Al Jazeera.

“We were able to grab about 350 million crypto assets, and then on top of another 100 that we had recently gotten, so we’re almost at half a billion there, and we are freezing bank accounts everywhere,” Bessent told Fox News.

He said US President Donald Trump had ordered the economic pressure campaign in March of last year and instructed him to “up the pressure again” about three weeks ago.

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