If you guys read the article there is a very significant paragraph:
A collaboration between Israel and Iran is extremely rare but love of bitcoin brings them together. See BTC is not all bad
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Sadr later sent the torch, then worth 3,730,000 satoshis, to Bushido Labs founder Sam Abassi, who is also Iranian. Abassi later sent the 3,740,000 satoshi-worth torch to Bitcoin Embassy based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A collaboration between Israel and Iran is extremely rare but love of bitcoin brings them together. See BTC is not all bad