{"id":596630,"date":"2026-05-09T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/the-nobitex-dilemma-how-irans-biggest-crypto-exchange-stays-off-the-ofac-blacklist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:52:43","slug":"the-nobitex-dilemma-how-irans-biggest-crypto-exchange-stays-off-the-ofac-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/the-nobitex-dilemma-how-irans-biggest-crypto-exchange-stays-off-the-ofac-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobitex dilemma: How Iran&#8217;s biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy91bm5hbWVkLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"The Nobitex dilemma: How Iran's biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iran entered the final night of February 2026 under a near-total internet shutdown. In the wake of a joint strike by the United States and Israel, Tehran almost completely severed the country&#8217;s connection to the global internet \u2014 likely leaving only users on a government whitelist with access to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1120\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/pasted-image-57.jpeg\" width=\"2000\" \/>\n      <\/p>\n<p><em>Iran\u2019s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed restriction on citizens\u2019 access to the external network. Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu\/country\/IR?from=1772220745&amp;until=1772739145&amp;view=view1\"><span><em>IODA<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But in that digital darkness, one vital financial service continued to operate without interruption: Nobitex, a cryptocurrency exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigations\/one-irans-most-powerful-families-founded-its-largest-crypto-exchange-its-used-by-2026-05-01\/\"><span>linked<\/span><\/a> to Iran\u2019s ruling elite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/the-nobitex-dilemma-how-irans-biggest-crypto-exchange-stays-off-the-ofac-blacklist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran entered the final night of February 2026 under a near-total internet shutdown. In the wake of a joint strike by the United States and Israel, Tehran almost completely severed the country&#8217;s connection to the global internet \u2014 likely leaving only users on a government whitelist with access to the outside world. Iran\u2019s internet formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}