It just so happens that Iran is the key to the east dumping the dollar.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0616/p06s12-woeu.html
The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, speaking in the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg before an audience that included the top leaders of Russia, China, and India.
The US has a long, long history of meddling with elections around the world.
