In early 2025, an embattled Iranian regime was turning increasingly to crypto in order to thwart sanctions choking its economy. During this time, a VIP account on Binance registered to a 79-year-old Chinese resident used a series of transfers to send $439 million worth of digital tokens from the crypto exchange to an outside wallet. That wallet in turn forwarded most of the funds to ones that company investigators would later identify as connected to sanctioned organizations linked to Iran like ...