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Iran Launders Billions Through Shadow Banks, US Must Respond

Brittany MaysBy Brittany MaysApril 24, 2026 Spreely News 4 Comments3 Mins Read
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I spend my days inside fraud networks most Americans never see — dark web forums, encrypted channels and markets where stolen identities are bought and sold like commodities. I study them because you can’t defend what you don’t understand, and right now foreign states are weaponizing those same criminal markets against us. What I’m seeing should alarm every American who cares about national security and the integrity of our financial system.

Iran has quietly built a parallel financial network designed to work around sanctions and normal oversight. It uses front companies, nominee directors and bank accounts set up with stolen or fabricated identities so funds can slip through intermediaries that never see who is really behind the transactions. On June 6, 2025, the Office of Foreign Asset Control sanctioned over 40 individuals and entities linked to the three Zarringhalam brothers — Mansour, Nasser, and Fazlolah — for laundering billions through Iran’s shadow banking network.

That shadow banking relies on exchange houses and shell firms in places like the UAE and Hong Kong to move cash from oil and petrochemical sales and make payments in multiple currencies. The proceeds flow into accounts that ultimately benefit military-linked groups and help fund nuclear and missile programs as well as proxies across the region. This isn’t random criminality; it’s deliberate statecraft built to evade systems meant to stop it.

North Korea takes a hands-on approach by embedding fabricated identities into the U.S. payroll system. The regime has placed IT workers inside American companies using identities stitched from stolen data, purchased documents and sometimes fully synthetic profiles that will pass verification checks. Those workers earn real pay that feeds laundering pipelines, with transactions layered to look like ordinary retail banking until the origin is effectively invisible.

Russia plays the role of the supplier in this ecosystem, running infostealer malware that harvests Social Security numbers, birthdates and login credentials from millions of Americans. That raw identity material hits dark web markets where components are packaged and sold to anyone with cash or state backing. When those pieces are combined with forged documents and verification-bypassing tools, you get identities that can open accounts, register companies and move money across borders.

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China has been playing the long game for years, and the 2015 breach of the Office of Personnel Management gave it a historic haul of personal data on 21.5 million people. That dataset didn’t vanish; it spread through underground markets, providing the building blocks for identities that can be verified and reused at scale. In plain terms, stolen U.S. records helped seed an identity economy that adversaries now exploit to hide state-directed finance inside civilian systems.

ALARMING RISE OF FAKE LEGAL REQUESTS: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR PRIVACY shows one face of this broader problem, and MALWARE EXPOSES 3.9 BILLION PASSWORDS IN HUGE CYBERSECURITY THREAT captures how the raw inputs for identity fraud keep multiplying. These are the same tools ordinary criminals use — document forgery services, AI-composited selfie tools, Telegram channels and dark web marketplaces — but the actors wielding them now have state resources, patience and strategic goals. That changes everything.

Our financial defenses were built to catch isolated criminals, not states that cultivate fake identities over years and then activate them when needed. Screening names against sanctions lists, flagging behavioral anomalies and checking documents all matter, but they’re insufficient when well-resourced adversaries layer stolen data and forged credentials into long-term cover. Most American institutions are not treating this as the national security threat it is, and that has to change if we want to close the door before the money reaches its deadly ends.

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Brittany Mays is a dedicated mother and passionate conservative news and opinion writer. With a sharp eye for current events and a commitment to traditional values, Brittany delivers thoughtful commentary on the issues shaping today’s world. Balancing her role as a parent with her love for writing, she strives to inspire others with her insights on faith, family, and freedom.

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  1. Lawrence M on April 24, 2026 1:27 pm

    The Iran government and all of its criminal leadership is absolutely Evil and just like the false Religion which is a political ideology called Islam that they serve it all belongs to Satan!
    >I’m sure most of you already know most of this but I repeat that Islam is nothing but a political ideology to conquer and destroy! Muslims await not Jesus Christ but rather their so called Mahdi who will appear on earth and lead them all to conquer all infidels and destroy them! These Muslims and Hindi’s are nothing but terrible invaders who have been allowed to attack and ruin America from within as they’ve been sent to do that by the Devil himself!

    If you will take the time read here further explanation of the truth about Muhammad. From an Islamic perspective, Deuteronomy 18:20 is unassailable and Deuteronomy 18:20 gives us two criteria for spotting a false prophet. If someone speaks in the names of other gods, he’s a false prophet. If he delivers a false revelation, he’s a false prophet. Interestingly, Muhammad did both when he delivered the infamous Satanic verses. We learn about the Satanic verses not from Jewish or Christian sources but from early Muslim writings. Let’s read a passage from the history of al-TabarI to see what happened.

    The history of al-TabarI volume 6 page 108

    When the messenger of God saw how his tribe turned their backs on him and was grieved to see them shunning the message he had brought to them from God, he longed in his soul that something would come to him from God which would reconcile him with his tribe. With his love for his tribe and his eagerness for their welfare, it would have delighted him if some of the difficulties which they had made for him could have been smoothed out, and he debated with himself and fervently desired such an outcome. Then God revealed: By the star when it sets, your comrade does not err, nor is he deceived, nor does he speak out of (his own) desire (that’s the beginning of Surah 53 of the Quran.) and when he came to the words “Have you thought upon al-Lat and al-Uzza and Manat, the third, the other?” (that’s Surah 53:19-20), Satan cast on his tongue because of his inner debates and what he desired to bring to his people, the words “These are the high flying cranes, verily their intercession is accepted with approval” (that last part was originally the next verse of Surah 53).

    Al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat were three pagan goddesses. When Surah 53 was revealed, the Quran called them the high-flying cranes whose intercession is accepted with approval, meaning that Al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat were like birds that could carry your prayers to Allah. Muhammad bowed down in honor of this revelation and as usual his followers bowed down with him but the polytheists were so delighted that Muhammad had finally approved of their gods, they joined in and prostrated themselves because of the reference to their gods, which they had heard, so that there was no one in the mosque, believer or unbeliever, who did not prostrate himself. So the pagans were bowing down in worship with Muhammad and his followers because Muhammad and the Quran had shown respect for their goddesses.

    But Muhammad’s friendly relations with the polytheists didn’t last long. He soon learned that his verses praising pagan goddesses didn’t come from Allah, they came from Satan. Gabriel visited Muhammad and said “Muhammad, what have you done? You have recited to the people that which I did not bring to you from God and you have said that which was not said to you.” This is the angel Gabriel telling Muhammad that he delivered a revelation that didn’t come from God. Saddened to recognize his treachery against Allah, Muhammad lamented “I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to him words which he has not spoken.” Both Gabriel and Muhammad plainly state that Muhammad meets the criteria of a false prophet in Deuteronomy 18:20.

    There is more to read from this above text source here. ://muslimseekers.com/proof-that-muhammad-spoke-from-the-devil-quran-verses-from-satan/

    Allowing all of this madness to continue in America is worse than playing with fire; it’s inviting Satan to destroy America and so far he has way more than a leg up! These agents of these pagan religions are all over our government and social system having a field day! Obama serves Satan directly and he paved the way for much of this so that now all the fools that feel for the political correctness jive-ass propaganda have opened a hellish Pandora’s box of lies and deceptions straight from hell! If this all isn’t abated or totally stopped America is finished!

    In America all the way back in 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created by some of the most diabolical filthy rich elites, and that got coupled with a most diabolical anti-God and human ideology which was spawned and founded just previously by Karl Marx (who openly worshiped Satan and talked his own two daughters into committing suicide) he and Friedrich Engels, who both developed its core principles and published “The Communist Manifesto” in 1848 which was then able to flourish during the Industrial Revolution and it’s rise in Russia under Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, who was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist then becoming the first head of government of Soviet Russia in 1917 as the stage was being set for the future spread of totalitarianism with what I point out will be the eventual prophesied future arrival of the the Antichrist with the Globalist Beast System!

    Look what communism has done to whatever countries its been manifested in as for example Communist China, or then spreading into Southeast Asia, as in “Cambodia when Pol Pot the leader of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979, when he was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1.5 to 2.8 million people, through executions, forced labor, and starvation. His regime aimed to create an agrarian socialist society, leading to one of the worst genocides in history.” As you know they called it the Killing Fields during the Viet Nam War Era and I say these subhuman devils we mention that now infest America, even our government; would not hesitate to bring those same techniques of total control here to our beloved former Constitutional Republic of the People the first chance they get to seize total control; which they’ve been pushing to do for decades now!<

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    • Reggie on April 25, 2026 8:24 am

      You are right on the money with your statements about the take over of OUR COUNTRY by those who subscribe to a world government and total control of the people. WE are at war with dark evil Satanic forces and WE must keep vigilant and do OUR best to stop this takeover of OUR lives and souls.

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      • Lawrence M on April 25, 2026 10:29 am

        Yes Sir Reggie my Fellow American Patriot Christian Citizen! You’re prescription as to what we MUST do is spot-on and I totally agree!
        God bless you and yours!

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        • Lawrence M on May 1, 2026 12:16 pm

          Also this obvious distraction proves that great deceivers and deceptions abound!

          UFO’s are not occupied by living, breathing flesh beings such as ourselves, but rather they are part of an intended deception from a unseen or spiritual plane of existence! No little ET’s are coming around waiting for the right time to announce themselves and how they want to only be our friends!!! The Truth is quite evident!

          Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

          Get Real People and stop being sucked into nonsense and outright lies!

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