Friday, 17 May 2013

The Atlantic: How Iran Benefits From an Illicit Gold Trade With Turkey

An obscure loophole allows Tehran to profit while skirting Western sanctions.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived in Washington, D.C. for a much-anticipated summit with President Barack Obama. The timing of the visit -- amid reports of chemical weapons usage in Syria and an attack against a Turkish border town by alleged Syrian agents -- will make it hard to talk about anything other than the civil war in Syria.

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