Cabrone
Precisely. Iran holds 50% of the world's known probable gas reserves and is the second largest exporter of oil in the Gulf. The stock market there has fallen 35% since the new president came to power. Wealthy Iranians are putting their cash into $U.S. and otherwise buying property in safe stable havens abroad, if not taking themselves there into the bargain. There is clearly a fear by the middle class of the country being taken back to the days immmmediately following the overthrow of the Shah, when few dare speak their minds. Not that long ago, Iranians were pleading to the West to allow them to bring about democracy in their own time and way, bet they are thinking differently now.