A gang of 16 shady individuals have been arrested by Iranian officials for allegedly smuggling currencies outside the banking network in order to increase the value of foreign currencies and to disturb the public. As CNN reports, amid the protests in the clip below, Iran says the 16 unidentified individuals “had used an atmosphere of psychological war created by the enemy” and colluded with “certain domestic and foreign groups” to exacerbate conditions. One of the accused, allegedly, had $300mm going through a bank account and “will be dealt with soon.” Those arrested “were the main players in the recent fluctuations in the foreign currency market,” the Tehran Judiciary said in a statement as the public panics over a 60% drop in its currency’s purchasing power in the last few weeks. Of course, a 99% drop in the USD’s purchasing power is acceptable to the US public since it has been achieved over a century or so…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-04/iran-arrests-gang-16-currency-manipulators
