Iranian officials decry blockchain game ‘Hamster Kombat’ as soft power tool
The deputy chief of the Iranian military claimed the game was a way of distracting Iranians from the country’s upcoming presidential elections.
The growing popularity of the play-to-earn blockchain game “Hamster Kombat” has drawn sharp criticism from Iranian government officials and hardliners, who claimed the simple play-to-earn tap game is an instrument of soft power projected by Western nations.
Habibollah Sayyari, the deputy chief of the Iranian military, claimed the game was meant to distract the Iranian population from the country’s upcoming elections. Sayyari’s comments were echoed by religious authority Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, who characterized the entire field of cryptocurrencies as fraud-ridden.
These comments from Iranian officials don’t acknowledge the dire financial situation many Iranians find themselves in while the country is beset by Western sanctions and soaring inflation. To put Iran’s economic problems into sharper perspective, the current exchange rate is 1 U.S. dollar to 580,000 Iranian rial.
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Author: Vince Quill
