Foreign Policy

US bans gold sales to Iran, threatens neighbors.

"From July 1, the US will ban sales of gold by anyone to either the Iranian government or to Iranian citizens, a senior US Treasury official said. Washington has warned Iran's neighbors Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, key regional centers of the gold trade, to stop gold sales to Iran, said David Cohen, treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence."

It's telling they link terrorism and financial intelligence into one agency.