Senior employees knew of, and joked about, the exchange's growing ranks of Iranian users, according to 10 messages they sent to one another in 20 that are reported here for the first time. The exchange's popularity in Iran was known inside the company. "It didn't need identity verification, so we all used it."Įleven other people in Iran beyond those interviewed by Reuters said on their LinkedIn profiles that they too traded crypto at Binance after the 2018 ban. "There were some alternatives, but none of them were as good as Binance," said Asal Alizade, a trader in Tehran who said she used the exchange for two years until September 2021. Until that point, customers could trade by registering with just an email address.
The traders said they continued to use their Binance accounts until as recently as September last year, only losing access after the exchange tightened its anti-money laundering checks a month earlier. That November, Binance informed traders in Iran it would no longer serve them, telling them to liquidate their accounts.īut in interviews with Reuters, seven traders said they skirted the ban. In 2018, the United States reimposed sanctions that had been suspended three years earlier as part of Iran's nuclear deal with major world powers.
sanctions and a company ban on doing business there, a Reuters investigation has found. LONDON - The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite U.S.
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