Monday, July 13, 2026

OPINION: Who Staged the 1953 Coup, the Shah or Mossadegh?

By Elahe Boghrat The late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) kept two people out of prison and saved their lives, namely the former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh (1882-1967) and the founder of the Islamic...

OPINION: The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Network of Influence in the UK

By Potkin Azarmehr   This week, Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has gone on hunger strike in an attempt to persuade the UK foreign secretary to do more to...

Why Is Japan’s Abe Going to Iran? What Can He Accomplish?

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to visit Iran next week in an apparent mediation mission to ease tension between Iran and the United States. Following are some...

OPINION: Iran’s ‘Final Battle’ Rests In the Hands of the Shah and the Nation

By Elahe Boghrat (The following piece was written by Elahe Boghrat, Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan London, the Persian-language sister publication of Kayhan Life. The view expressed are her own.) What follows are recurring reflections on a moment...

OPINION: War Will Bolster, Not Bring Down, the Islamic Republic

By Elahe Boghrat Since the publication of its first issue in exile in 1983, Kayhan London has consistently opposed the Islamic Republic. The paper was also against the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). The unwavering opposition to...

Opaque Oil Deals Around Hormuz Test the Petrodollar

The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters. By Ron Bousso LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar-dominated global oil trading system is being tested by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait...

OPINION: We Must Support Iran’s Political Prisoners,  Save Them From Execution 

By Fahimeh Robiolle Every morning, we receive news of the executions of individuals – named or anonymous -- in the prisons of the Islamic Republic. Each execution is associated with a specific prison: Ahvaz, Evin,...
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OPINION: Fatemeh Mehlaban’s Music is Worthy of a Grammy Award

  By Majid Mohammadi I came across one of Fatemeh Mehlaban’s music videos by pure chance, while going through some Facebook posts. My subsequent internet searches turned up many of her Iranian folk songs, which were...

OPINION: Oil Market Power Ebbs from OPEC to the Troika

By John Kemp LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been marginalised as critical decisions about the oil market are taken by a troika of the United States, Russia...

OPINION- How Khashoggi’s Disappearance Could Change Middle East Politics

By Maysam Behravesh   Oct 10 (Reuters) - The disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a long shadow over Saudi Arabia’s global image. If the Saudi government did in fact kill...