The problem is your value="" attribute, for example <textarea value="<iframe>"> is invalid HTML, and the browser will do its best to try and fix the markup. That’s why you’re getting strange results
So instead, remove the value attribute. You’ll also want to escape with esc_textarea to prevent malicious code breaking out of the text area
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