They’d have to be completely retarded to accept USDT or USDC because it can be frozen at will by Tether or Circle. The only possible exception is Liquid USDT.

Agreed, but I also think most people in charge of nation states are retarded.

... Except American president's of course. Americans don't elect retards. They elect people with dementia.

Apparently using shell companies and intermediaries. And likely not keeping stable coin too long (almost certainly swapping out immediately into another currency).

the supposed quote 'after vessels email cargo details and Iran completes its assessment, ships are given a few seconds to pay in Bitcoin, which ensures funds cant be traced or confiscated due to sanctions' he also added ' toll fee would be 1$ per barrel of oil, with empty ships to pass freely while vessels attempting transit without permission would receive a radio warning that they will be destroyed' why tether tho you think, isnt it easy peasy FREEZY but as with you id like to see another report, everything references the FT thing and its paywalled, who knows tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯