{"id":648600,"date":"2026-08-26T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=842408"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:30:37","slug":"irans-rial-crashes-to-a-record-low-as-new-sanctions-target-its-bitcoin-mining-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/irans-rial-crashes-to-a-record-low-as-new-sanctions-target-its-bitcoin-mining-lifeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Rial Crashes to a Record Low as New Sanctions Target Its Bitcoin Mining Lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/irans-rial-crashes-to-a-record-low-as-new-sanctions-target-its-bitcoin-mining-lifeline2_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Iran Rial crash\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Iran&#8217;s rial collapsed to a record low this week just as President Trump&#8217;s new sanctions package named digital assets as a target for the first time, threatening the IRGC&#8217;s billion-dollar bitcoin mining workaround. A Record-Low Rial and a New Sanctions Wave Iran&#8217;s open-market exchange rate slid to roughly 2.02 million rials per dollar earlier this [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s rial collapsed to a record low this week just as President Trump&#8217;s new sanctions package named digital assets as a target for the first time, threatening the IRGC&#8217;s billion-dollar bitcoin mining workaround. A Record-Low Rial and a New Sanctions Wave Iran&#8217;s open-market exchange rate slid to roughly 2.02 million rials per dollar earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648600","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=648600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}