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Iran's military took 52% of government spending by 2006. Treasury is now dismantling the crypto channels keeping the IRGC funded.

8/10/2026

Fifty-two percent of total Iranian government spending went to the military by 2006, up from 16% in 1993, per Central Bank of Iran national accounts data provided to Fox News Digital by Miad Maleki, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Treasury Department sanctions official.

Education's share fell from 27% to 15% over the same period. That structural misallocation is the preexisting condition the U.S. sanctions campaign is now pressing against, and on Aug.

7, Treasury added cryptocurrency exchanges and international currency networks moving hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran to its target list.

Economic Fury: the pressure campaign's scope Treasury's "Economic Fury" campaign said June 10 it had prevented "tens of billions of dollars" in revenue from reaching the Iranian regime and its proxies.