A US advisory urging US citizens to “leave Iran now” is circulating online again, adding another layer of risk to a cryptocurrency market already reeling due to high volatility and forced liquidations.
🚨BREAKING: The United States government tells its citizens to LEAVE IRAN IMMEDIATELY. Could this be the reason why the markets bombed 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 first issued in mid-January. Still, timing matters. The warning is resurfacing 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 cryptocurrency traders, the immediate conclusion is not whether the notice is recent. The market is behaving like a fragile and leveraged macro trade. In this type of environment, geopolitical headlines tend to affect bitcoin the same way they affect high beta tech stocks, not the same way they affect gold.
Bitcoin has already been swinging wildly after a week of liquidation-driven selling, and market sensitivity is high. When positioning is tight and liquidity is tight, even ambiguous 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 over digital assets.
The headlines about Iran could eventually fade, especially if the talks in Oman go smoothly. But in a market that is still digesting big losses and where sentiment is already fragile, traders are likely to treat geopolitics as a volatility accelerator rather than a directional catalyst.
