Who Says Gold Is Money? (Part Two) | Janet Tavakoli

``We have sanctions against Iran, an OPEC member. If the U.S. wanted to put pressure on Iran right now, how would we do it? Iran's currency was just extremely devalued, and she has been selling oil to Turkey in exchange for gold to convert to hard foreign currencies. If we destroy confidence in gold, we'll kick Iran while she's down (currency-wise). Smashing the price of gold will help destabilize Iran, and destabilization is something the USA has done before to Iran. Gold price manipulation is not above us. That's not to say we're doing it, only that you shouldn't put it past us. ''