Iran isn't in middle east, it's in Western Asia... smdh... I can show you 100 "alternate facts" which will show it has nothing to do with Iran...
Hardly the pump we saw was directly linked with $500 million which was injected into the Tether market[1]... What I find amusing is how dumb are people these days... Why would people in war buy something which they will have no access to... With war comes limited communications and internet access. Cryptocurrencies are the last thing you want to invest in when your life is in danger...
This is the most likely the reason there was a spike in google trends...
Source:
[1] https://medium.com/@BayesIn/bitcoin-climbs-as-tether-gets-500m-injection-in-5-minutes-8e60dae9812