Iran’s central bank has banned the country’s banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, over money-laundering concerns, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday as the country tries to halt a currency crisis./ FILE PHOTO: A token of the virtual currency Bitcoin is seen ...
DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) - Iran’s central bank has banned the country’s banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, over money-laundering concerns, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday as the country tries to halt a currency crisis. “Banks and credit institutions and ...
Every day, hundreds head to Tehran's bustling Ferdowsi street to buy foreign currency, only to find that many exchange offices have shut up shop, have turned off their currency-rate displays, or have signs up reading, "We don't have U.S. dollars to sell." A nationwide dollar-buying panic is in ...
The central bank cites money-laundering concerns but the news comes as the rial hits an all-time low and black market dollar-buying is surging/ Iran’s central bank has banned the country’s banks from dealing in crypto-currencies because of money-laundering concerns, the state news agency IRNA ...
An Iranian newspaper says the country's Central Bank has officially banned the use of cryptocurrencies in financial transactions in order to "prevent crimes such as money laundering and terrorism." The move is seen as part of Tehran's efforts to control the currency market after the rial hit an ...
The Bibas children Kfir and Ariel were the youngest hostages taken to Gaza by Hamas/ Hamas says it will hand over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the Palestinian armed group. The group's negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said the bodies to be released ...
Villagers have been returning to areas vacated by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon/ Israeli forces have pulled out from towns and villages in southern Lebanon but remain in five locations along the border in what the Lebanese government describes as a violation of a ceasefire deal. Tuesday ...
Before being detained, the Foremans shared videos of their travels in Iran/ Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country's judiciary news agency has said. Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified ...
Rubio's visit resumes the warm relations the US and Saudi Arabia had in Trump's first term/ The choice by the Trump administration of Saudi Arabia as the location for key talks on Ukraine underscores how far the Kingdom has come diplomatically from the near pariah state it became after the ...
The collection includes Jackson Pollock's Mural On Indian Red Ground/ It has been dubbed one of the world's rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it. For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson ...
Zakaria is 11 and helps at one of the biggest hospitals in Gaza – al-Aqsa – under the mentorship of an experienced paramedic. As war raged across the strip, he could be found carrying wounded and traumatised victims into the emergency ward for treatment, wiping blood from his hands as he went ...
The US secretary of state met the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on Sunday/ Israel's prime minister has said he is working to make US President Donald Trump's plan to remove and resettle Gaza's population "a reality". Benjamin Netanyahu said he was cooperating with the US on a "common ...
After years of military expansion, everything Iran was trying to build in Syria is in ruins/ Mouldy half-finished food on bunk beds, discarded military uniforms and abandoned weapons - these are the remnants of an abrupt retreat from this base that once belonged to Iran and its affiliated groups ...
Celebrations in Israel as three more hostages released/ Hamas has released another three Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners following a week in which the fragile ceasefire deal appeared under threat. American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Argentinian-Israeli Yair ...
Before being detained, the Foremans shared videos of their travels in Iran/ The family of a British couple in custody in Iran say they are united in their determination to secure their safe return. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested in January, when state-run Iranian media reported they ...