OFAC Targets Ministry of Intelligence, Crypto-for-Oil Payments in Latest Iran Sanctions

**Executive summary:** The report describes the U.S. Treasury’s Operation Economic Outcast, including a first-of-its-kind OFAC sectoral determination on Iran’s digital assets sector, designations of MOIS-linked cyber espionage actors (with flagged Bitcoin/Ethereum/TRON wallets), coordination with an FBI superseding indictment charging Iranian cyber actors, and disclosures of large-scale crypto-enabled sanctions evasion (including a broker who processed $100M+ for IRGC-QF oil sales); it outlines enforcement implications and compliance actions for global crypto businesses.