Iranian Countdown to War Crisis, Day Number…

In what could be a futile move–as the story points out, "It is far from clear how placing assets in Asia or anywhere abroad would protect them from being frozen as few governments or major banks would be willing to flout U.N. sanctions openly"–Reuters reports that Iran, fearing U.N. sanctions on the horizon as they are threatened with a spanking from the Security Council, is withdrawing its foreign assets from Europe to "other banks abroad," according to a "senior Iranian official, who asked not to be named," and making noises about cutting oil output (it's the world's fourth biggest oil exporter, and OPEC's second biggest) just to show the rest of the world who is in charge.