{"id":45075,"date":"2021-06-28T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45075"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:00:09","slug":"iran-issues-30-mining-licenses-to-mining-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/iran-issues-30-mining-licenses-to-mining-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran issues 30 mining licenses to mining companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Ministry of Industry has authorised the operation of 30 cryptocurrency mining companies. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/business-and-markets\/109155\/30-cryptomining-units-have-license\">Financial Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six licences were issued in Semnan Province, four in Alborz, Mazandaran, East Azerbaijan and Zanjan. In the Tehran metropolitan area, only one company received a permit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Iran linked the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-iran-enlists-intelligence-services-in-crackdown-on-illegal-bitcoin-mining\">to the fight against illegal cryptocurrency mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage was driven by rising electricity consumption in other sectors and dry weather, which constrained hydroelectric power generation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, reports said that Iranian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-imposes-a-full-ban-on-cryptocurrency-mining-until-september\">completely banned cryptocurrency mining<\/a> until the end of summer 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Reuters wrote that police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-iran-seizes-7000-cryptocurrency-mining-devices\">uncovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining farm<\/a> at a derelict factory in Tehran and seized 7,000 miners.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Ministry of Industry has authorised the operation of 30 cryptocurrency mining companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,840],"class_list":["post-45075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45077,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions\/45077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}