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How US and Iran are playing a crypto cat-and-mouse game over sanctions

· By Virginia Pietromarchi
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Just 12 hours before the United States and Israel began attacking Iran in late February, Firouz, a crypto user in Tehran, decided to act. “I was feeling all week the war would start soon,” he said.

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