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24 Jul 2026, 17:30

On Friday, August 2, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced new sanctions against 9 companies and 4 individuals linked to Babak Zanjani for allegedly circumventing sanctions.

According to a statement from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), these sanctions target activities related to Zanjani's "Dot One" holding in Iran and several supporting companies for his cryptocurrency exchanges in Turkey and the UAE. The U.S. Treasury stated that Zanjani has engaged in money laundering and covert fund transfers for Iran by utilizing a diverse investment portfolio that includes financial services, digital asset trading, gold, and infrastructure projects.
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The advertisements displayed on Telegram channels are ordered directly from Telegram, and the channel owners are unaware of it.

Yesterday, I received dozens of images showing that new criminals have even misused my avatar to display their ads here. But I have no way to prevent that from being shown.

Criminal advertisements can be reported to Telegram by clicking on the three vertical dots that appear below the close button in the corner of the ad box. Only a channel that has been boosted to level fifty can stop the display of ads. Something close to impossible.

The boosts for this channel are at level zero. I can't even change the color of the links here, let alone use custom emojis. Thousands of people with premium accounts need to boost the channel to reach level one, and then thousands more than the previous ones need to boost the channel again, and...

This ranking has nothing to do with the number of followers or visitor statistics; you just have to beg others every day to boost your channel. Even if I reach level one, I will fall back down because I have to ask for boosts again every day.

This is not compatible with my spirit.
No matter how hard I try, when I write to request a report for the misuse of my image in advertisements: it can be reported.
Thus, I am doomed to a specific fate in this regard.
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