OPINION: White House Must Choose Between Tough Iran Sanctions and Moderate Gasoline Prices
By John Kemp
LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - The White House can drive Iran’s oil exports to zero, or it can have moderate U.S. gasoline prices, but it probably cannot have both.
The awkward tension between...
OPINION: Iranian Women’s Unrelenting Battle Against Oppression
By Azadeh Karimi
For the past 40 years, the Islamic Republic Regime’s educational system and propaganda machine have been brainwashing and indoctrinating generations of young Iranians by planting distorted ethical and moral values and a...
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...
OPINION: Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Is Powerless After Soleimani’s Death
By Hamed Mohammadi
The former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Brigadier General Ghasem Soleimani was killed in a targeted U.S. drone attack on
Baghdad’s International Airport on January 3.
Many political observers...
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: The Missing Catalyst for Iranian Democracy
By Brenda Shaffer
Nov 21 (Reuters) - Just before imposing new sanctions on Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country’s “cabinet is in disarray, and the Iranian people are raising their voices even louder...
OPINION: Iran and U.S. Both Declare Victory in Their War of Words
By Rafiq Khoury, Independent Arabia online news website
In his memoirs, former Israeli President Shimon Peres (1923-2016) writes: “ Ben Gurion and I were traveling together from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem one day. Ben Gurion,...
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...
OPINION: The Potential for Change In Iran Has Never Been Greater
By Mehrdad Khonsari
The war in Ukraine has overshadowed the fact that, for the past several months, there has been an unrelenting series of public protests in the streets of numerous towns and cities throughout Iran.
These latest...
OPINION: Oil’s Geopolitical Premium Vanished in 2025 – And May Not Return
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.
By Ron Bousso
LONDON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Global oil markets faced multiple black swan events in 2025 – including the Israel-Iran war and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refiners – yet they were...
