A US advisory urging US citizens to “leave Iran now” is circulating online again, adding another layer of headline risk to a crypto market already reeling from high volatility and forced liquidations.
🚨BREAKING: The US governments are telling their citizens to leave IRAN IMMEDIATELY. Could this be why the markets nuked today? Are we going to war? pic.twitter.com/ZmnGDSUJcf
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 6, 2026
Officials have since clarified that the warning itself is not new and was only issued in mid-January. Still, timing matters. The advisory resurfaces just as the United States and Iran prepare to hold nuclear talks in Oman on Friday, with President Donald Trump publicly warning Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Tehran threatening retaliation if attacked.
For crypto traders, the immediate takeaway is not whether the advice is fresh. It’s that the market behaves like a fragile, leveraged macro trade. In this kind of environment, geopolitical headlines tend to hit bitcoin the same way they hit high-beta tech stocks, not like they hit gold.
Bitcoin has already swung wildly after a week of liquidation-driven selling, and market sensitivity is heightened. When positioning is stretched and liquidity is thin, even equivocal news can trigger rapid deleveraging, especially in perpetual futures.
The asset has repeatedly sold off whenever geopolitical drama makes headlines, with investors preferring the perceived safety of gold or bonds to digital assets.
Iran’s headlines may eventually fade, especially if the Oman negotiations go smoothly. But in a market still digesting heavy losses and where sentiment is already fragile, traders are likely to treat geopolitics as a volatility accelerator rather than a directional catalyst.
