Crypto faces a new risk as Iran threatens major US companies in the Middle East

What looks like a geopolitical threat aimed at US multinationals could quickly become a crypto story too. That is because several of the companies threatened by Iran now sit inside the infrastructure, payments, and corporate treasury layers that parts of the digital-asset industry rely on. According to the Wall Street Journal, the IRGC warned that US companies in the region would be targeted from April 1 and named fi…