Saturday, October 17, 2026

OPINION: Khamenei’s Funeral Spotlights A Regime in Crisis

By Kayhan Life Staff Ali Khamenei burial ceremony in Mashhad began today, under the shadow of U.S. bombings, at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite imam. The shrine, in northeastern Iran, is one...

Kayhan Celebrates 75th Anniversary

By Abdolrahman Faramarzi Translated from the original, which appeared in the first issue of Kayhan The following is an excerpt from an editorial which originally appeared in the first issue of Kayhan 75 years ago. It...

OPINION: Iranian Regime’s Inability to Deliver Economic Well-Being

July 23, 2018 Iranians hoped that the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would ease sanctions, reboot the economy and improve their lives. Yet instead of investing in the country and its people, the...

OPINION: Oil Diplomacy and the U.S. Presidential Election

By John Kemp LONDON, July 14  - Slower growth in petroleum consumption has intensified competition among the major oil producers and contributed to periodic volume wars and price slumps as they have fought for market...

OPINION: Iranian Missile Attack on U.S. Base in Iraq Was a Face-Saving Ploy

By Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper On January 8, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a series of missile attacks from inside Iran against the Al Asad Air Base that houses Iraqi and U.S. troops. No...

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: UK Decision to Proscribe the IRGC Is Welcome

By Sarah Sackman / Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green For many members of Finchley and Golders Green’s Iranian community, the threat posed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is not an...

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...

Rough Seas and Restless Nights – Tracking the Grace 1 Supertanker

  MADRID, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Video journalist Marco Trujillo sat on his hotel balcony, eyes fixed on the silhouette of a supertanker in the Strait of Gibraltar, watching for the splash of an anchor...

Iran Analysts and Their False Narratives

By Potkin Azarmehr In 2009, millions of Iranians spilled out onto the streets and protested against the rigged results of the presidential elections. The protests were brutally repressed, and the regime's savagery was captured by...