Hello, friends. Welcome back to this little program we like to call New World

next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbyor Report.com. And I am James Evan Polato for MediaMonarchy.com.

The Internet of Cars takes Manhattan. We've got that story plus a Magna Carta for

the web pleases the crown. But first, all the latest midterm election in it. I'm just kidding.

But that was a great distraction, those midterm elections from the U.S. dropping more white

phosphorus chemical weapons on Syria, though. So in non-selection news, Tehran keeps going crypto for sanction relief.

We grabbed this story from the Asia Times since 2013 and perhaps earlier, Iran has been engaging

in cryptocurrency-based transactions for a variety of purposes. Back on October 11th, the U.S.

Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,

FinCin, issued an advisory that stated, among other things that, quote, with the full reimposition

on November 5th of sanctions lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA,

FinCEN expects that Iranian financial institutions, the Iranian regime, and its officials

will increase their efforts to evade U.S. sanctions to fund malign activities and secure

hard currency for the government of Iran, end quote. The U.S. also asserts that the Iranian

regime uses deceptive practices, including front companies, fraudulent documents, exchange houses,

seemingly legitimate businesses, and government officials to generate illicit revenues and

finance their malign activities. Insert the Spider-Man double meme of the, you know, pointing at

each other. Financial institutions should also be aware of possible Iranian abuses of virtual

currency and precious metals

to evade sanctions and gain access to the international financial system and to conceal their

nefarious actions. So James, it pretty much looks like either sort of, I'm not sure if the sanctions

or the cart or the horse, but the West is sort of openly going after Iran via cryptocurrency?

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