Nobitex

Nobitex was designated by OFAC on 2 June 2026 under Executive Orders 13224 and 13902 alongside its chairman Amir Hossein Rad and two members of the Kharrazi family, who sit inside the Supreme Leader's inner circle. The US Treasury's Economic Fury campaign said the four exchanges it froze that day had collectively handled well over half of Iran's 2025 digital-asset inflows, with Nobitex commanding the dominant share. Treasury simultaneously offered up to $15 million through Rewards for Justice for information disrupting IRGC financial networks.

Nobitex was founded with involvement from Kharrazi family members close to Mojtaba Khamenei, giving it effective protection from domestic regulatory pressure. Beyond retail trading, Nobitex served as the primary stablecoin rail through which the Central Bank of Iran attempted to defend the rial on the open market; that channel was severed by the designation in the same week the rial had hit a record 1,746,000 to the dollar.

The designation makes Nobitex one of the highest-profile crypto platforms ever sanctioned in a live conflict. Its removal from the stablecoin rail removes a key tool the Central Bank had used to dampen exchange-rate volatility, compounding the economic pressure of the wider Iran-conflict sanctions regime.