The United States has expanded its strike on Iran ' s financial network, this time to stabilize currency assets in the chain. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Besent confirmed that the United States had frozen four Iranian-related wallets, involving approximately $131 million USDT, which were deployed on the wave field network.

Four wave wallets frozen.

The asset was initially identified by the chain investigator Specter. Subsequently, Becent confirmed that the four wallets were related to the Central Bank of Iran. According to reports, the freeze was not a stand-alone operation, but part of the United States sanctions against Iran ' s financial channels.

The report mentioned that United States officials had stated that the law enforcement objective was to cut off Iran ' s access to digital assets to finance military and other illegal activities. In parallel with this freeze, the United States is pushing for a blockade against Iranian ports. The United States Central Command has also announced a new military strike against Iran.

For its part, the Iranian side indicated that its military had launched drone attacks on United States military installations at the Azrak airbase in Jordan. The encrypted assets freeze was thus also observed in the broader context of the American-Iranian confrontation.

USDT $344 million frozen in April

This is not the first time that the United States has called for the freezing of stable currency assets associated with Iran. It was reported that Tether had frozen over $344 million of USDT at the request of the United States authorities in April this year. The company had also cooperated with law enforcement authorities in the past, and the embargo had been used to cover wallets that circumvent sanctions, terrorist financing and other illegal activities.

  • April: More than $344 million frozen USDT
  • May: US claims to have seized approximately $1 billion of Iranian encrypted assets
  • July: Another freeze of approximately $131 million USDT

United States inclusion of encrypted assets in sanctions tools

This operation also continued the economic anger campaign launched by the United States in March 2025. According to the United States Department of the Treasury, the operation was aimed at dismantling the financial and procurement networks on which Iran relied to acquire weapons and support military operations.

In a June statement, Becent stated that the United States Department of the Treasury had frozen Iran ' s assets and attacked financial networks that supported its military system. He also states that the Ministry of Finance will continue to pursue all subjects that provide financial support to the Iranian regime, including individuals and institutions that transfer or conceal funds in encrypted currency.

As the use of stable currencies in cross-border transfers expands, so does the enforcement of United States sanctions on chain assets. The current freeze on the USDT wallet shows that the collaboration between the issuer of the stabilization currency and United States law enforcement continues.