The Middle East: Somebody still thinks it is incidental?

Everybody knows that selling oil in any currency other than the USD is very dangerous, let it be EUR (Saddam Hussein) or gold (Muhammar Al-Gadhafi).

Let's look at this Middle East map:

From Zerohedge, the Iranian currency, the rial, has crumbled a 70% since the EU and the USA imposed sanctions on the country.

When President Obama signed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act, in July 2010, the official Iranian rial-U.S. dollar exchange rate was very close to the black-market rate. But, as the accompanying chart shows, the official and black-market rates have increasingly diverged since July 2010. This decline began to accelerate last month, when Iranians witnessed a dramatic 9.65% drop in the value of the rial, over the course of a single weekend (8-10 September 2012). The free-fall has continued since then. On 2 October 2012, the black-market exchange rate reached 35,000 IRR/USD – a rate which reflects a 65% decline in the rial, relative to the U.S. dollar.

In my opinion, the end game is in sight. Energy resources will be controlled by a small elite, and most of us will perish or will be become defacto slaves. A very nasty future lies ahead.