{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_smeg4yt5diaczu7fo6ra","title":"Tether and Senate Democrats Clash Over Iran’s Shadow Crypto Network","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/tether-and-senate-democrats-clash-over-irans-shadow-crypto-network-smeg4yt5di","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_smeg4yt5diaczu7fo6ra","seq":533892,"kind":"article","title":"Tether and Senate Democrats Clash Over Iran’s Shadow Crypto Network","url":"https://news.bitcoin.com/regulation-and-legal/tether-and-senate-democrats-clash-over-irans-shadow-crypto-network","summary":"On Monday, stablecoin heavyweight Tether disclosed that it had assisted in freezing nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT. Yet that very same day, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an exclusive citing a newly released Senate Democratic report detailing Iran’s reliance on USDT. Senate Report Examines 846 Crypto Addresses Linked to Iran Following the WSJ […]","published":"2026-09-28T21:45:10Z","seen":"2026-09-28T22:26:50Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-news-bitcoin-com-c86bc4","name":"news.bitcoin.com","domain":"news.bitcoin.com"},"via":"kite-news-bitcoin-com-c86bc4","topics":["cryptocurrency","regulation & legal","democrats","iran","sanctions","stablecoin","tether"],"authors":["Jamie Redman"],"entities":[{"id":"Q47528658","name":"Tether","type":"org"},{"id":"Q3117832","name":"Senate Democratic Caucus","type":"org"},{"id":"Q794","name":"Iran","type":"place"}],"story":"st_smeg4yt5diaczu7fo6ra","category":"politics","category_p":0.8100000023841858,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.49000000953674316,"political":0.9800000190734863}]}