Tuesday, May 5, 2026

OPINION: Iran is Rich in Oil and Gas, But Its Citizens Are Impoverished and Severely...

By Dr. Mansour Kashfi (Dr. Kashfi is an expert on petroleum geology and the Iranian oil and gas industry, and a professor at Dallas College in Dallas, Texas. The views expressed are his own.) Iran shares...

OPINION: Iran’s Future Judiciary Must Abolish Capital Punishment

By Nader Zahedi As the Islamic Republic moves closer to its eventual and inevitable demise, opposition forces are facing the historic and daunting task of achieving democracy in Iran. A democratic governing system safeguards human...

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: Iran’s Regional Posturing Exacerbates Tensions with America

By Dr. Ali M. Pedram Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to remain at odds with each other through deepening disagreements which could plunge the whole region into an unprecedented level of turmoil. If this trajectory...

OPINION: Time for Talks to End U.S.-Iran Stalemate?

By Mehrdad Khonsari In the current standoff between Iran and the U.S., a U.S. president who shows no sign of being trigger-happy is pitted against a defiant Iranian government that refuses to capitulate. With any...

OPINION: MEK Influence Wanes at White House, Gains Ground in House of Lords

  An Iranian opposition group once listed by Britain and America as a terrorist organisation has been courting senior U.S. officials in the hope of establishing itself as Iran’s next government, and  is now looking...

OPINION: 28 Mordad, the Myth That Haunts Iran

By Amir Taheri When writing of non-Western societies in the past century or so, many Western European and North American historians and chroniclers adopt one of two attitudes. The first attitude could be described as “the...

OPINION: Hormuz Strait Blockage Could Destroy IRGC Navy

By Babak Taghvaee Last Saturday, Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran's Islamic Republic, backed President Hassan Rouhani's suggestion to block Gulf oil exports if Iran’s own exports were to be stopped in the wake of...

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...