Increasing geopolitical blood pressure in the Middle East shook crypto and global financial markets. Bitcoin (BTC) lost more than 4 %in the last 24 hours, fell to $ 103,900 after Israel’s air strike in Iran’s capital Tehran, Iran. This was recorded as the hardest retreat for weeks for BTC.

The first news was leaked by Axios, while the sounds and effects of the attack were confirmed by Al-Jazeera. It was reported that the explosion sounds were heard in Tehran. Afterwards, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country took action against Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear program and that operations would continue until the threat was completely eliminated.

💬 Trump: “Not war, we want a deal”

US President Donald Trump, in his first statement on the developments, “is our choice of agreement with Iran, but such attacks can trigger a great war,” he said. On the other hand, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that Iran did not fit the enriched uranium restrictions for the first time after two years.

📉 Markets reacted harshly

With the rapid increase in geopolitical risks, global markets have been the scene of harsh sales:

US stock market index futures decrease by 1.5 %.

European stock market term transactions are similarly stretched.

Orientation for safe port assets has begun:

Gold increased by 0.75 %in the last hour to $ 3.428/ounce.

Oil (Brent) jumped by 9 %and saw the $ 74/barrel level.

The US 10 -year bond interest fell by 2 basis points and went to 4.32 %.

While the US dollar was strengthened by the euro and the pound, Yen and Switzerland lost value in the face of francs.

🧠 Investors are pricing uncertainty

In the estimation market, the possibility of Israel attacking Iran in Polymarket was priced by below 30 %until last week. However, the developments against this morning caused all scenarios to be rewritten.

High -risk assets such as Bitcoin are usually the first reaction in geopolitical shocks. How the markets will be shaped in the coming days will depend on both the dimension of the Israeli-Iranian conflict and the political/military reactions of the US and other major actors.