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Having sanctioned, one by one, seventeen individuals connected to the International Criminal Court, Washington crossed an unprecedented threshold on 9 October 2026 by placing the Court itself on its blacklist. The measure is spectacular, but its actual reach is, for now, limited by a series of licences that the official rhetoric largely silences.
On 17 September 2026, OFAC designated the Iranian platform BitBank, its developer and three members of Babak Zanjani’s network under U.S. sanctions. Beyond these new listings, that set of measures illustrates the mobilisation of the U.S. government against the infrastructures enabling the Iranian regime to use digital assets to dodge sanctions.
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