{"id":22285,"date":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/binance-sues-wall-street-journal-over-reporting-on-iranian-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","slug":"binance-sues-wall-street-journal-over-reporting-on-iranian-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/binance-sues-wall-street-journal-over-reporting-on-iranian-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journal reported that cryptocurrency exchange shut down internal investigation into transactions with network funding terror groups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US government is investigating Binance over allegations that Iran used the crypto exchange to evade sanctions and illegally move funds, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/currencies\/justice-department-probes-irans-use-of-binance-to-evade-sanctions-9dc61ce4?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqe0fumglBCjFBD1CoVvPPw0g4F0WUBQpqQ8fRgAf_Sh3LB4ISpIRfvrV3a_mlU%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69b18d65&amp;gaa_sig=AzJOqk4boIZkDiw9qaAJhouYQuJ_aOwa0GFJg10JiTEYqLEJSb_M8k_xhHCXSPvoyRK7Az_Y2wwD1NS9gA2ErA%3D%3D\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> report published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Binance has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en\/blog\/compliance\/519345044124745139\">denied<\/a> these claims and even sued the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday for defamation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/11\/binance-crypto-wall-street-journal-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a0e5af33d483d9aab5e06bd85fc2dc72c9948b20\/241_0_3334_2667\/master\/3334.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b8b0cf94cbd0a3ccc586eb5119204599\" title=\"Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions\" \/>Journal reported that cryptocurrency exchange shut down internal investigation into transactions with network funding terror groups<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<br \/>\nThe US government is investigating Binance over allegations that Iran used the crypto exchange to evade sanctions and illegally move funds, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday.<br \/>\nBinance has denied these claims and even sued the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday for defamation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal reported that cryptocurrency exchange shut down internal investigation into transactions with network funding terror groups Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US government is investigating Binance over allegations that Iran used the crypto exchange to evade sanctions and illegally move funds, according to a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/binance-sues-wall-street-journal-over-reporting-on-iranian-sanctions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}