Use restraint. They desperately want to set up the "conspiracy" crowd to look bad.
That was my thought too. Clapper is far more intelligent than Brennan. He's formidable. Almost Rumsfeld level. I'm sure Clapper sees Brennan as a "useful idiot".
Massive gain. Factor of 40-50. I don't think we will have a "financial reset" but if we did, and moved to a gold/asset backed currency, the purchasing power of Gold would explode overnight.
I hope it can be done peacefully. Iran was a prosperous secular nation in recent history. I have no idea what it is like to live there today.