There are any number of memes that originate in gold buggery.

The "US-invaded-Saddam-because-he-was-selling-oil-in-Euros" was one such meme and its close relative the "Iran-will-be-attacked-because-of-the Iran Oil Bourse-selling-oil-in-Euros" was another from the same stable, and moreover that was a meme which I knew for a fact was complete bollocks because the Bourse was my idea in the first place.

Nothing I have heard from my (excellent) contacts in Iran tells me that there is a general run for gold, although everything I hear is that their financial system is in deep trouble.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson