iran vs us confrontation, page-19

The new sanctions are so severe it will stop virtually everything moving in and out of the country.

this article is a bit one sided but it does paint a big picture of what might unfold

http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article94130

this would trump the 1979-80 Jimmy Carter crisis and rightly or wrongly send gold sky rocketing upwards

There is nothing better to rattle a fiat/credit based currency system than a war. its a good diversion from a debt crisis in the western economies.

The hyeprinflationists like to use the 79-80 as their favourite example of where gold could go, except there wasnt any hyperinflation then either.