MDL Plaintiffs Permitted To Enforce Iran Judgments With $344M Tether Assets

( July 13, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York granted motions by plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation that arose out of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spanned more than 20 years to enforce default judgments against Iran by pursuing execution and attachment of two digital wallets that contained approximately $344 million of Tether cryptocurrency tokens that were allegedly owned by the Central Bank of Iran....