{"id":56985,"date":"2012-09-18T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=56985"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:39:23","slug":"iran-depends-heavily-on-turkey-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/09\/18\/iran-depends-heavily-on-turkey-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran depends heavily on Turkey for Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-56987\" title=\"1347866980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1347866980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1347866980.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1347866980-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>from Bullion Street:<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions hit Iran is reported to have piling up gold reserves to face any eventuality and is depending heavily on neighbor Turkey for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Iranians purchased $4.8 billion worth of gold in 2012\u2032s second quarter, up from roughly $1 billion in the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said deteriorating Iranian economy, as a result of tightening international economic sanctions is seen as a key factor behind the surge in gold exports.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s gold exports to Iran witnessed a surge this year raising questions whether the gold purchases are the latest attempt by Tehran to circumvent increasingly tough international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in gold exports also has been matched by a similarly impressive growth in Iranian businesses opening in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s total gold and precious stone exports have amounted in the first seven months of 2012 to nearly $8.9 billion, while the figure was only $1.8 billion in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>via Iran depends heavily on Turkey for Gold \u00ab SGTreport \u2013 The Corporate Propaganda Antidote \u2013 Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, &amp; Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bullion Street: Sanctions hit Iran is reported to have piling up gold reserves to face any eventuality and is depending heavily on neighbor Turkey for the purpose. Iranians purchased $4.8 billion worth of gold in 2012\u2032s second quarter, up from roughly $1 billion in the first quarter of the year. Analysts said deteriorating Iranian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":56987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1471],"class_list":["post-56985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}