Using bitcoin to pay extortions or ransoms is very common. What ransomware doesn't use bitcoin?

Iran is legitimate democracy with only difference that you have a constitution as holy book and supreme court judges assigned by the President, while Iran use Quran(shia interpretation) with ayatollah as the supreme court...

Sure Iran is funding Hezbollah but USA is funding various rogue militias as well... (Syria war for example)

same hahaah

Is the US or Israel asking for blockchain payments for access?

"terror state". I would have hoped that HN users would be smarter than to parrot FOX news propaganda.