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美国冻结据称与伊朗有关的3.44亿美元加密资产
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特朗普政府已冻结其称与伊朗有关的3.44亿美元加密资产，美国正加大对德黑兰的施压力度。
此次由CNN率先报道的行动，正值旨在结束战争的脆弱外交谈判持续陷入僵局，全球经济也因这场战争受到冲击之际。在脆弱的停火期间，美国政府一直在寻求加大对伊朗的经济施压力度。目前尚不清楚被冻结的这笔巨额资金是否会对德黑兰政府或其处理战争与谈判的方式产生影响。
美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特周五表示，财政部“正在制裁多个与伊朗有关的钱包地址”。
他在一份声明中称：“我们将追踪德黑兰拼命试图转移至境外的资金，瞄准与该政权有关的所有金融生命线。”
伊朗常驻联合国代表团拒绝置评。
周四，为全球加密货币交易提供便利的数字货币公司泰达（Tether）宣布，在“美国多个当局提供了与非法活动相关的交易信息”后，该公司已“配合美国政府冻结”了两个地址中的3.44亿美元加密资产。
一名美国官员告诉CNN，美方掌握了将这些加密货币与伊朗关联起来的情报。
该官员称：“通过与区块链分析专家合作，美国政府发现了与伊朗政权存在实质关联的证据，包括与伊朗交易所的 confirmed交易，以及通过与伊朗央行关联钱包交互的中介地址完成的一系列交易。”
CNN并未独立证实泰达的这些账户与伊朗有关。
这名美国官员周五表示：“伊朗央行（CBI）日益采用复杂手段掩盖其参与跨境加密货币交易的事实，因为它们试图稳定里亚尔汇率，并在日益受限的环境中推动国际贸易。”
这位官员称，财政部“与包括加密货币交易所在内的众多美国及外国金融机构保持着积极沟通”。
像伊朗、俄罗斯和朝鲜这样遭受严厉制裁的政权，越来越多地转向加密货币——这种资产的监管程度低于传统银行体系——以创收并规避制裁。
根据加密货币追踪公司Chainalysis的数据，2025年伊朗持有的加密资产规模达到78亿美元，全年多数时段的增速超过2024年。Chainalysis称，2025年最后一个季度，伊朗实力强大的伊斯兰革命卫队在区块链上持有的加密资产约占总规模的一半，“这与该卫队在伊朗经济中的整体主导地位相符”。
Chainalysis在周五给CNN的一份声明中谈到美方冻结的泰达账户时表示：“几年前这些钱包经常活跃时，它们经常进行大额转账，单笔金额最高可达数千万美元，交易对象主要是其他私人钱包。这些模式与我们观察到的其他已知伊斯兰革命卫队钱包在链上转移资金的方式一致。”
大西洋理事会高级研究员丹尼尔·坦嫩鲍姆表示，冻结这些资产“具有重要意义”，但考虑到伊朗已经遭受诸多制裁，“我认为这未必能有效阻止伊朗在当前冲突态势下继续开展行动”。
他表示，伊朗已经被制裁数十年，并且已经建立了应对机制。尽管存在制裁，一些国家仍在继续与伊朗开展业务。
“在这个阶段，鉴于伊朗已经被彻底制裁，打击伊朗的方式应该是针对为其提供便利的第三国行为体，”包括中国，他告诉CNN。
周五晚些时候，美国财政部对一家中国独立地方炼油厂实施制裁，原因是该炼油厂购买了价值数十亿美元的伊朗石油。
坦嫩鲍姆还指出，伊朗“多年来一直在利用与加密货币相关的资金”。
“他们会与那些试图避开美国银行体系的交易方合作，”同样是奥纬咨询合伙人的坦嫩鲍姆说道。伊朗“正想尽一切办法支付当前所需的额外武器装备和军事支持费用”。
去年，外界普遍认为受以色列支持或代表以色列行动的黑客从伊朗最大的加密货币交易所窃取了约9000万美元等值的资产，此前以色列对伊朗发动了军事打击。
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Updated Apr 24, 2026, 3:52 PM ET
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The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the United States ratchets up pressure on Tehran.
The move, first reported by CNN, comes as shaky diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to end the war continue to stall and the global economy reels from its impact. The administration has sought to increase economic pressure on Iran during the tenuous ceasefire. It’s unclear if the large sum of money seized will have an impact on Tehran or its approach to the war and negotiations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the agency “is sanctioning multiple wallets tied to Iran.”
“We will follow the money that Tehran is desperately attempting to move outside of the country and target all financial lifelines tied to the regime,” he said in a statement.
The Iranian mission to the United Nations declined to comment.
On Thursday, Tether, a digital currency company that facilitates crypto transactions around the world, announced it had “supported the US government in freezing” $344 million in cryptocurrency across two addresses, after information was shared “by several U.S. authorities about activity tied to unlawful conduct.”
A US official told CNN that the government had information linking the currency to Iran.
“Working with blockchain analytics experts, the US government has observed evidence of material links to the Iranian regime, including confirmed transactions with Iranian exchanges and a series of transactions routed through intermediary addresses that interact with Central Bank of Iran-associated wallets,” the official said.
CNN has not independently corroborated that the Tether accounts were linked to Iran.
“The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has used increasingly complex methods to obfuscate its involvement in cross-border transactions using digital assets, as they seek to stabilize the rial and facilitate international trade in an increasingly restricted environment,” the US official said Friday.
The Treasury Department “maintains an active dialogue with numerous US and foreign financial institutions, including digital assets exchanges,” the official said.
Heavily sanctioned regimes like Iran, Russia and North Korea have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency, which is less regulated that the traditional banking system, to generate revenue and skirt sanctions.
Cryptocurrency holdings in Iran reached $7.8 billion in 2025, growing at a faster rate for most of the year than in 2024, according to crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accounted for roughly half of those holdings on the blockchain in the last quarter of 2025, “mirroring its dominance in Iran’s economy more broadly,” Chainalysis said.
“When these wallets were regularly active several years ago, they engaged in frequent, large transfers of up to tens of millions of dollars, largely with other private wallets,” Chainalysis said in a statement to CNN on Friday, referring to the Tether accounts the US government that were frozen. “These patterns are consistent with how we’ve observed other known IRGC wallets move funds on chain.”
Daniel Tannebaum, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said that the freeze of the assets is “meaningful,” but given how sanctioned Iran is, “I don’t think it necessarily moves the needle for thwarting Iran’s attempts to continue operating in the state of the conflict as it is right now.”
Iran has been sanctioned for decades and has put mechanisms in place to adapt, he said. Some countries have continued to do business with Iran despite the sanctions.
“The way to get at Iran at this point, because Iran is truly sanctioned out, is to go with the third country actors enabling them,” including China, he told CNN.
Later on Friday, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a China-based independent teapot refinery for purchasing billions in Iranian petroleum.
Tannebaum also noted that Iran has “been leveraging crypto-related funds for years.”
“They will use it with actors that are trying to stay outside of the US banking system,” said Tannebaum, who is also a partner at Oliver Wyman. Iran is “really trying to use any methods they can to pay for additional armaments, military support that they need at present.”
Last year, hackers widely believed to be operating in support of or on behalf of Israel stole the equivalent of about $90 million from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange amid Israeli military strikes on Iran.