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why would i care if people who have nothing i want and dont speak any language i speak use bitcoin or not? if iran suddenly vanished i probably wouldnt even notice.

Iran is the worlds largest producer of the spice safron, international safron prices are way higher then in iran because they cant export it easily. if you could flip iranian safron you'd be a millionaire.

Who control the spice, control the universe!

Wow. Saffron really is "the spice". Wikipedia seams to be a bit outdated with prices of USD 1,000 10,000 per kg while Alibaba.com quotes are much lower (while exceeding the total annual Saffron production in offers from China alone?!) but still it seams to be the most expensive spice in the world.

So while there is a monetary and an import embargo in place, how about export? Somehow in one hour of googling I couldn't find any easy to read source of whether or not ships with Saffron could freely travel and unload in foreign harbors or not. Here and there I read about an EU oil embargo but even this is super poorly documented in Wikipedia. WTH?

sounds like a business idea: smuggling saffron